Plant Based Leather. Another popular plant based leather alternative is Piñatex also known by the anglicized name Pinatex a plant-based leather made out of pineapple leaf fibres. 5 Plant-based Vegan Leather Alternatives For The Conscious Fashionistas.
Its pretty sustainable and increasingly popular for vegan fashion lines. Dutch designer Tjeerd Veenhoven turned to plant fibre to create his vegan leather much like Piñatex although opting to source it from the leaves of the areca palm instead of from pineapples. This is because they are made out of bio-degradable products and generally try to use as few chemical or plastics as possible to reduce their impact on the.
One of the great things about pineapple leather is that it makes use of what would otherwise be an agricultural waste product.
Established media is picking up on it too. The two versions of Lino Leather are composed of a mix of plant-based oils and resins which can be tinted to create different color finishes. The company started out by making Phool incense sticks from leftover temple flowers. Then Florafoam a biodegradable alternative to Styrofoam.
