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    The document summarizes an alternative to leather called Mylo, which is made from mycelium, the root structure of mushrooms. Mylo aims to provide a sustainable and biodegradable leather alternative at a comparable price to real leather goods. Raising livestock for leather has environmental impacts such as greenhouse gas emissions and water pollution, as well as social impacts like higher cancer rates in tannery workers. Mylo could offer a solution as a premium material made from a renewable resource, priced competitively with leather products.

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    The document summarizes an alternative to leather called Mylo, which is made from mycelium, the root structure of mushrooms. Mylo aims to provide a sustainable and biodegradable leather alternative at a comparable price to real leather goods. Raising livestock for leather has environmental impacts such as greenhouse gas emissions and water pollution, as well as social impacts like higher cancer rates in tannery workers. Mylo could offer a solution as a premium material made from a renewable resource, priced competitively with leather products.

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    The document summarizes an alternative to leather called Mylo, which is made from mycelium, the root structure of mushrooms. Mylo aims to provide a sustainable and biodegradable leather alternative at a comparable price to real leather goods. Raising livestock for leather has environmental impacts such as greenhouse gas emissions and water pollution, as well as social impacts like higher cancer rates in tannery workers. Mylo could offer a solution as a premium material made from a renewable resource, priced competitively with leather products.

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    Leather Alternative

    Sarah Bean
    60+ out of 72 current
    bag offerings are
    primarily leather
    Environmental
    What’s Raising livestock: feed, pastureland, waterways, methane

    Wrong

    Social
    Tanning + skin to leather: chrome-tanning (chromium), lime
    sludge, sulfides, acids, formaldehyde, coal-tar, arsenic -

    with cancer rates 20-50% higher in tannery workers

    Financial
    Leather? Costly: costly to raise animals, costly to purchase leather
    What is Mylo?
    ● Sustainable leather alternative
    ● Made from mycelium
    ● Biodegradable, organic
    material
    ● Premium look and feel
    ● Expected to be priced at the
    same point as leather goods
    Leather Pleather Mylo

    Rose Studded Roxy Bucket Noni Crossbody Bag by Falabella Prototype by


    Bag by Alexander Wang Sole Society Stella McCartney

    $30+ per yard $11+ per yard $15 per yard with
    automation by 2020
    How is Mylo “sticky”?

    Unexpected Emotional
    ● Mushroom roots as an ● Lives of animals and humans
    alternative to leather goods
    Thank you! Questions?

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