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To make matters worse, clothes are often produced using nonrenewable resources and large quantities of water. Now, some companies are reimagining how clothing can be produced in ways that are much less impactful on the environment by getting creative with how they\u2019re sourcing their raw materials.\u00a0<\/span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Companies such as <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ananas-anam.com\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ananas Anam<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (producer of pineapple based textile <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ananas-anam.com\/products-2\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Pi\u00f1atex<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">), <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vegeacompany.com\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Vegea<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (which creates textiles from the grape leftovers from Italian wine production) and <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/circularsystems.com\/agraloop\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Agraloop<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> are using food that would otherwise have been incinerated or sent to the landfill to create their products. These companies and others like them have used many types of food waste in their products, from inedible food scraps such as pineapple leaves and banana plant fibers, to unharvested or unsold foods that would have rotted in fields or gotten tossed from grocery store shelves. One company, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.qmilkfiber.eu\/?lang=en\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">QMILK<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, even makes fabric from milk that is not fit for consumption. Interested in seeing more? Food education group FoodTank has compiled a list of <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/foodtank.com\/news\/2022\/08\/companies-turning-food-waste-into-fashion-statements\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">12 noteworthy textile companies<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> that are doing their part to reduce food waste.\u00a0<\/span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As a consumer, your purchasing decisions have power. If you don\u2019t need new clothing, don\u2019t rush out to buy the latest from one of these companies -- you might even have trouble doing that, as many of these companies will need continued time and investment to get to scale. But when you do need a new item, consider taking a closer look at what your clothes are made of and how that might impact the world around you. And for the truly committed: try taking a broader look at your <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/pirg.org\/articles\/fashion-conscious-taking-a-dive-into-your-clothing-footprint\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">fashion footprint<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span>","":null}}],"featured_content":""},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v28.8 (Yoast SEO v28.8) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>The latest solution to food waste: Clothing made from pineapple leaves<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Companies within the fashion industry are using excess food in the production of their textiles to help address food waste.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/pirg.org\/edfund\/updates\/the-latest-solution-to-food-waste-clothing-made-from-pineapple-leaves\/\" 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