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CO2-neutral and vegan leather – made from mushrooms – Innovation Origins

Austrian scientists are continuing their research into making vegan and CO2-neutral leather from fungi in a biologically and environmentally friendly way.

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Leather has been fashioned out of animal skin for centuries. In a lot of cases, this is a by-product of meat production and is seen as such. Yet it is not only livestock farming that is becoming more and more the focus of animal, nature, and environmental conservationists. The leather production process is also being increasingly regarded as ethically objectionable and damaging to the environment. It leads to deforestation so as to make way for more grazing pasture. As well as more greenhouse ga…

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