Banana plants die after giving fruit. We turned the 'waste' into fabric. Here's how the chain actually works.
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 | Genuinely didn't know this until a few years ago after a banana plant gives its fruit, it dies. The whole stem just gets discarded. Millions of tons of it. But inside that stem is cellulose. So we started pulling that thread (literally) and built a chain: Banana stem → cellulose → yarn → fabric → clothing → back to earth No synthetics. No plastic. No waste sitting in a landfill. I'm part of a small team in India that actually built this supply chain on the ground on farms, at looms. Not a concept. Not a pitch deck. Real fabric from a plant the world was throwing away. Curious what people here think does this kind of material actually change your mind about what "sustainable fashion" means? Or are you skeptical? [link] [comments] |
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