环保且时尚：剩菜瓜果摇身一变皮革潮品_时事

环保且时尚：剩菜瓜果摇身一变皮革潮品

Soon you might not need to worry about wasting your food — you could just turn it into leather instead.

也许很快你就无需担心浪费食物了，相反，你可以把食物变为皮革。

Undergraduate design students in the Netherlands have come up with a new, eco-friendly process that converts leftover fruit and vegetables into durable, leather-like material, possibly strong enough to be used for car seats, handbags and other products in the future.

几个荷兰设计专业的本科生想出了一种有益生态的新型工艺，可以把剩余的水果蔬菜转化为经久耐用、类似皮革的材料，这种材料相当牢固，足够可以在将来用以制作汽车坐垫、手提包还有其他产品。

The project, Fruitleather Rotterdam, began as a school assignment. After brainstorming, the group of six decided to focus their work on social issues at the same time, and tacklethe widespread problem of food waste.

这一项目名为“鹿特丹水果皮革，一开始是学校的作业。经过一番头脑风暴，六人小组决定关注社会议题，解决食物浪费的普遍问题。

"The academy gives us a perfect view over the Binnerotte Square in Rotterdam, where they have a market each Tuesday and Saturday," Hugo de Boon, who focuses on spatialdesign，said so. “We saw how the square would be completely littered with food waste (at the end of the day), so ... we realized this was a problem we would want to solve from a designer's point of view."