Safe for your head, good for the environment.
Watch the 1-minute pitch video
Long description
Safe for your head, good for the environment. StudioMOM’s industrial designers turned a ‘normal’ bicycle helmet into a game changer. MyHelmet, made of mycelium, fits in with principles of the circular economy: there are minimal CO2 emissions, it does not require any fossil raw materials and the end result is 100% biodegradable.
For safety reasons, you have to replace a bicycle helmet every 3 years. This creates a waste stream of a hard-to-recycle, glued-together mixture of foam and plastic. StudioMOM wondered if it would be possible to develop a helmet that is less harmful to our planet?
The studio had already been experimenting with bio-manufacturing based on mycelium and hemp flakes for some time. Mycelium is the root network of a fungus that feeds on the flakes. Briefly heating this mixture stops the growth process, resulting in a material with properties similar to EPS, the harmful foam in conventional bicycle helmets.
Please login or create a profile to view comments