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: