Mushroom makes tasty eco-asphalt

Mushroom makes tasty eco-asphalt

Traditionally bitumen, which is made by crude oil distillation, has been used to bind gravel and sand to create our highways and roads. However, Visibuilt is ready to replace the fossil fuel with mycelium, the root-like structure of fungi.

Demand for bitumen is high: 90% of our roads are made with asphalt. According to a report published by the International Bitumen Emulsion Federation, the estimated global consumption of bitumen in 2022 was around 120 million tonnes.

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    Claire Turrell

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Turrell, C. Mushroom makes tasty eco-asphalt.
Nat Biotechnol 43, 9 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41587-024-02530-7

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