A company in New York, called Ecovative Design, has designed a compostable alternative to Styrafoam, called EcoCradle. "EcoCradle packaging is literally grown, not manufactured. We use a growing organism to transform agricultural byproducts like cotton seed hulls and buck wheat hulls into a beautiful protective package. Our patented process is inspired by the efficiency of nature, and uses a filamentous fungi (mushroom roots) to bond this packaging into almost any shape."