fruitleather is all about a cleaner process: a talk with hugo de boon on #storyofdesign

knowing the fact that most of us still lack awareness of how to use sustainable material for product outcomes, fruitleather rotterdam, in continuation of the previous article, talks about the benefit of using this vegan leather-like material. a clean process and utilizing resources that are left behind are some of the benefits.

“we disagree with having exotic animals being slaughtered just for their hides. i think it is absurd to keep a crocodile inside a small tank (as an example) for a company to make a fancy bag out of it.”

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“here (in europe) we don’t have that many leather tannerie and the tanneries here are pretty well maintained, there’s water filtration, although they are still using chemicals to get rid of the excess skin on the hides. however, in countries like india, the water that is used in…