This new vegan leather is made from bonded fibers that are extracted from pineapple leaves on plantations by farmers before they are cut up and layered. These fibers then go through an industrial process that yields the innovative Piñatex textile. The canvas-like materials can then be dyed, printed and treated to give it different thicknesses and types of texture, including leather. The production creates a byproduct of biomass which can be returned to the farmers to be used as fertilizer on their plantations. To produce one square meter of medium thickness Piñatex, 480 pineapple leaves are required. That may seem like a lot, but it's only the leaves from 16 pineapples, leaves which are otherwise just left to rot in the fields after the pineapples are picked.

这种全新素皮革的原料是菠萝叶中萃取出来的黏合纤维。纤维萃取由种植园的农民们在将菠萝叶切碎并分层堆积前完成。接着，这些纤维需经过一系列工业处理，才能生产出革命性的Piñatex。之后，这种类似帆布的材料可以被染色和印花，经过不同的处理来得到不同的厚度和包括皮革在内的各种质地。生产过程中出现的有机物副产品可以被农民回收利用，充当种植园的肥料。生产一平方米中等厚度的Piñatex需要480片菠萝叶。可能这听起来很多，但其实16颗菠萝即可长出这么多叶子。何况这些叶子如果不拿来生产材料，在菠萝采摘完毕后，它们也只能留在地里腐烂而已。

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