Monthly Archives: March 2022

In the trending fashion world, leather has a long legacy as one of the top product choice. Animal skin has been used as a source of leather for centuries and we find its trace in the Egyptian tombs dating back to 5000 BC. Leather preparation is done by applying variety of chemicals including mineral salts, formaldehyde, tar derivatives, and dyes on the animal skins. Moreover, leather is the material of the moment as it is being used for a variety of fashion products ranging from wallet, jacket, shoes and even find its place in the wall art.

However when the human value system evolved over the time, the cruelty free and vegan culture has taken a leading role in the millennial generations. Every year millions of animals have been killed for food / leather and there is a growing concern about making the fashion industry as cruelty free and sustainable. As a result, vegan alternative to natural leather comes in to the forefront of sustainable fashion industry.

As per theworldcounts.com, we use 5 trillion plastic bags per year! That’s 160,000 a second! And over 700 a year for every single person on the planet. It takes up to 1,000 years for a plastic bag to break down. Plastics started to dominate the human life just over a century ago with the invention of synthetic plastic from fossil fuel in 1907. Thousands of new plastic products entered in the market after World War II, so fast changing the way we live that life without plastics would be difficult today. The comparatively inexpensive material and its nature of conveniences have led to a throw-away culture making the plastic menace as one of the biggest environmental problems that we face today. Today, single-use plastics account for 40 percent of the plastic produced every year. Many of these products, such as plastic bags and food wrappers, on average are used for just minutes to hours yet they may persist in the environment for hundreds of years.