We Are Starting To See The Shape Of A Fashion Industry Without Plastic

Two organizations–Parley for the Oceans and Biofabricate–are teaming up to prove that sustainable, naturally derived materials can and should replace plastics across industry supply chains.

Behind every environmental crisis currently gripping the planet, from raging wildfires to dying oceans, “there’s an economic failure, and a design failure,” says Cyrill Gutsch, founder of the nonprofit Parley for the Oceans. That is what Gutsch realized around five years ago when, as the head of a creative studio, an activist acquaintance of his introduced him to the sheer volume of plastic–as much as 12 million tons annually–accumulating in the oceans and destroying marine environments.

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