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Category: Leather & Textiles

Ocean Harvest Bag®

Eliminating Single Use Plastic Mesh For Shellfish – In the battle against single-use plastic in the seafood industry Ocean Farm Supply provides an 100% bio-based, biodegradable (water & land), and compostable (home & industrial) mesh bag for shellfish. The Ocean Harvest Bag® developed with VPZ Packnatur is composed of beechwood cellulose, a fiber harvested from sustainably certified forests in Austria and neighbouring[...]

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Packnatur® Cellulose Tube Netting

Fruit & Vegetable Netting Made Without Plastic – VPZ’s Packnatur® Cellulose Tube Netting is an 100% bio-based netting suited for various fruits and vegetables. Developed with sustainability in mind, the nets are made of LENZING™ Modal fibers – a beechwood cellulose material, harvested from sustainably grown forests that are certified and controlled to meet stringent guidelines. Being certified food safe, the nets are[...]

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Fruitleather

Tasty Fruit to Vegan Leather – To bring awareness and combat food waste Fruitleather Rotterdam has given wasted mangoes a new life. With every shipment of mangoes, many are deemed unsellable due to bruising or quality control. After collecting these mangoes locally, Fruitleather Rotterdam begins their process of upcycling the lost mangoes. Through a process that converts mango fibers into[...]

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The Swag

Bags Keeping Produce at Home Fresher and Longer – By enhancing hydration, promoting breathing, and prolonging ethylene buildup, The Swag provide an optimal environment for produce to remain fresh, crisp, and healthy. With an aim to reduce food waste, The Swag are bags designed with multiple layers that each play an important role in providing hydration and breathability for produce stored within. The[...]

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Felder Felder Dresses

Sustainable Boutique Dresses – Felder Felder is a fashion and design agency headed by twin sisters Daniela and Annette Felder. Having become experts in the use of biomaterials, they create on demand boutique fashion pieces to avoid overproduction and wastage. Their work utilizes plant-based and plastic free textile alternatives, such as fruit fibres, wood bi-products, seaweed, and other[...]

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Tômtex

Material from chitin and coffee grounds – Tômtex makes leather from seafood waste and used coffee grounds. Seafood shells contain a large amount of chitin, which promotes biodegradability of the material. After preparation, the raw materials are refined with a layer of beeswax. Sealing ensures the water resistance of the material and allows individual surface texture. This allows design patterns such[...]

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Beeswax wipes

The eco-friendly alternative to aluminium foil and cling film – Driven by the idea of reducing their own need for plastic and disposable bags, the two Berliners Anna and Chelsea started making beeswax cloths. The space-saving and reusable method is lower in CO2 in its production compared to conventional reusable solutions such as jars. To make the beeswax cloths durable and biodegradable, a piece[...]

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Piñatex

Leather from pineapple scraps – Piñatex® was developed by the British company Ananas Anam, a manufacturer of natural textiles from the by-products of the pineapple harvest. With her development, Dr. Carmen Hijosa not only wanted to give an unappreciated waste a use, but also to generate maximum benefit with the smallest possible ecological footprint. The cradle-to-cradle aspect was a[...]

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Ventri – Cow Stomach

Cow stomach textured leather – Dutch designer Billie van Katwijk produces special handbags from cow stomachs using an elaborate tanning process. For her project “Ventri”, luxurious accessories are created from the slaughterhouse leftovers that were previously processed into dog food. Particularly surprising is the visual appeal and extraordinary texture of the waste product. Accordingly, the different properties of the[...]

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Coconut Water Leather

Leather from coconut water – To produce the biodegradable and waterproof Coconut Water Leather, the coconut water, which is a waste product of coconut processing, is sterilized. The natural substance obtained from this serves as a nutrient for the bacterial culture in the subsequent 12-14 day fermentation process. Once the process is complete, the leaf cellulose jelly obtained can[...]

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VEIO

Textile shells – The scarf series VEIO, processed by turning, was created by Kathin Morawietz’s idea of pressing the layers of old textiles together by a thin layer of glue. In the process, these become a dense block that retains the feel of the fabric and makes it a visually unique piece. Once the material is strong[...]

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Gum-tec

Chewing Gum Recycling – Gumdrop Ltd. aims to eliminate gum emissions by recycling all types of chewing gum waste and processing it into a variety of products in collaboration with global companies and manufacturers. In a new process, recycled chewing gum is turned into the sustainable material Gum-tec®, which can be made into things like rubber boots, cell[...]

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