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HUTPSOT | Turn The Page #72 | April 2020 | Artichoke
Maybe you are familiar with the concept of the ‘tote bag’. It initially started with the idea of banning single-use plastic bags and replace them with reusable fabric bags. Companies and brands are popping up like mushrooms all over the world to take this challenge to the next level by rethinking materials and their usage. How can we make suitable materials to replace textile and plastic? Which existing materials can we give new purpose? This Hutspot represents a small selection of cool initiatives that are taken to eliminate the waste of bags.
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by Renee Brants
MUSHROOMS
Mylo is a leather made from Mushrooms. They have a root structure, like a network of threaded cells called mycelium. These cells grow for 10 days on beds of agricultural waste and byproducts to form an interconnected 3D network that can be used as a biodegradable and non-toxic alternative for leather.
Mylo Bag
MANGO’S
Fruitleather Rotterdam is an animalfriendly company that tries to tackle the problem of food and harvest waste. They collect the waste of fruits and mash, cook and dry them to develop fruit leather. Ninety percent of this bag was made out of discarded mango’s.
Fruitleather Rotterdam Bag
FIRE HOSE
Elvis and Kresse is a brand that started with the goal to avoid decommissioned fire hoses from ending up in landfills. Additionally, they donate fifty percent of their profits to the Fire Fighters Charity.
Elvis and Kresse Bag
TRUCK TARPAULIN & TIRES
Freitag is a Swiss brand that upcycles different materials into designer bags. They combine broken bicycle tires, truck tarpaulin, old seat belts and PET bottles and turn them into colourful, high quality designs.
Freitag Bag
FISH
Fifty million tonnes of fish is wasted every year. MarinaTex, a James Dyson award-winning invention turns this waste into a biodegradable material stronger than LDPE. The material structure consists of chitin, a natural polymer found in fish skin and scales combined with agar, a gelatinous substance obtained from cell walls of red algae.
HUTSPOT | Turn The Page #72 | April 2020 | Artichoke
