Consumption: when food replaces leather and plastic

Grapes, apples or pineapples can be used to make bags or shoes. “For pineapples, for example, the fibers are extracted from the plant, dried, then transformed into a material that is similar to leather, says journalist Dorothée Lachaud on the 13 Hours plateau, Friday 19 November. It doesn’t necessarily cost less. More and more brands are turning to these vegetable alternatives because the tanning of animal leather remains very polluting.”

On the tableware side, containers made from potatoes and cereals have been created to reduce plastic. From now on, it is possible to buy straws made from corn starch. “They remain rigid for about thirty minutes (…) it’s ecological when we know that a billion non-recyclable straws are thrown around the world every day.”, Continues the journalist.