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Plastic Free July^® 2022

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Plastic pollutes our land, our airways, and our oceans. This month is Plastic Free July® 2022 – a global initiative to encourage everyone to eliminate plastic use for one month. The event, run by Plastic Free Foundation, invites us all to be part of the solution. Each year, over 100 million people in 190 countries take part. We’ve picked the […]

Cactus: The new leather?

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An image of a prickly pear cactus with fruits growing from the top. This type of cactus is being used to develop plant-based alternatives to leather.

It’s widely known that the production of animal leather is very harmful to the environment, but leather is a staple of many industries. As an answer to this problem a variety of more eco-friendly leather alternatives have recently been developed. One of these is an organic material called Desserto®, made of nopal (or prickly pear) cactus. This alternative has the look and […]