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These leather bags are made using leftover fruit and vegetables

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leather bag made of rotting fruit
Go on, use it to carry some fruit. Get meta. (Picture: Fruitleather Rotterdam)

Doesn’t sound too appetising, but hey, it’s vegan.

Fruitleather Rotterdam are a team of undergraduate design students who’ve come up with a new way to deal with leftover food: turning it into leather.

What started out as a university assignment has turned into a massive design project. Using leftover food from food markets, they’ve started creating ‘fruitleather’, a malleable, leather-like fabric from rotting fruits and vegetables, making a handy tote bag to show off the material’s potential uses to the public.

And no, before you ask, it doesn’t rot. We’ll explain:


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