Part of creating a more sustainable food economy is finding uses for food matter after it leaves the table. Take citrus for example. Did you know that 700,000 tons of citrus rinds are discarded every year? What if those rinds could be created into strong fiber to make brilliant fabrics?

Not only would it give the food matter a useful afterlife, but it would also prevent the need to plant as many acres with, say, cotton to produce cotton fabrics. This is the central idea behind Orange Fiber, an Italian company that is predicting citrus will underpin a sustainable textile revolution.

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Fonte: San Francisco, Italy