The vast majority of vegan leather is produced from polyvinyl chloride (PVC) and polyurethane (PU). Each is a type of petroleum-based plastic - meaning it can take thousands of years for PU and PVC leather to biodegrade.
Idk, they haven't even said anything about what type of additives they are using. Is it plastic or glue or... what is it? As a customer I'd really like to know what exactly I'm buying.
And cactus leather is safer for the environment. Cactus leather does not use PVC. Cactus leather is a plant-based vegan leather that is PVC-free and made from the leaves of the prickly pear cactus. While this mango leather use PVC.
What are the ingredients in vegan leather? The vast majority of vegan leather is produced from polyvinyl chloride (PVC) and polyurethane (PU). Each is a type of petroleum-based plastic - meaning it can take thousands of years for PU and PVC leather to biodegrade.
people are not going ot stop consuming animals.the leather is just the by product .vegan leather is the cancer , to fool people and pollute more lands .
What kind of chemicals do you mix with it? I'm wanting to make some vegan leather myself. I use a lot of animal hides to connect with the animal spirits. Thing is, there's this tree I need to connect to, but I can't exactly tan a tree's hide. This'll help me a lot! Thanks!
@@TuriGamer Polymers are not all garbage, just as carbohydrates aren't all sugars. They're complex chains of organic compounds that have drastically changed how far we can go as humans!
Instead of tanning a tree why don’t you use the tree bark to tan leather. That’s what vegetable tanned leather is. They use tree bark to tan leather since it has a lot of tannins.
Even Hermes leather is cheaper than $22 sq ft. I’m all for making use of waste but a product that costs a lot more than real leather and only as durable as PU leather isn’t that great. Seems the mango pulp is just filler and their additives are just another resin/plastic holding it all together. You could probably make the leather from cow poop if you wanted to.
I don't think the final product is really environmental friendly since the process turning tons of mangos into vegan leather is somehow unclear with what makes the rain coating and what chemicals make the additive. The mango waste itself is totally green waste and environmental friendly. It's just about money from turning free raw material into profitable products to be on the shelf with high-priced tag leather products. It will show their true intention when they have to buy mangos as a raw material. With more advance equipments and better management, mango importers won't make enough waste for their production anymore. They will have to do something then. If they can produce less expensive real leather from such cow skin without impacting the environment, that would the best. Cow skin is valuable and versatile byproduct waste from making beef. Keep in mind, the amount of cow skin produced is equivalent to the amount of beef people consume.
I think this stuff is already gone through the farm/stores as rejects and will be wasted (binned) if not used for something like this. You can't resell food waste, as food, well you could but you'd be in deep shit once regulatory found out!
my last leather jacket last for three years. And may be it suffered a little bit burning or chopping from other unknown bad guys, it still not eco friendly and durable enough for the price i had paid. Just only 20 $. I think a better eco friendly one with higher price like 35-50$ and last for 5-10 years still awesome choices than old plastic leather with short time value.
great we can cause even more damage than we already caused producing plastic by turning the plastic back into some form of oil and then causing even more harm by then burning that fuel in cars! 😀
It’s not just rainforest being wrecked for and by the cattle industry. I’ve quit avocados unless they’re local because people in Mexico are illegally cutting down the fir trees that monarch butterflies travel all that way to rest on and mate. I love avocado, but it’s just not worth having them when avocados from Mexico are a big reason for the extinction of a magnificent species. (And I’m lucky that I live somewhere that avocados grow on trees.)
After seeing countless cases of animal abuse in leather, wool, fur, industries, im now switching to vegan fashion. Im glad there’s leather alternative like this. Hope it’s going to be a mainstream fashion soon so it will be more available to a wider consumer base.
It's not that environment friendly as you think. They have to add a lot of additives including resin (plastic) to bond it together and feels like leather. You can't really recycle resin, it's toxic and a petroleum-based product.
Such a great idea..you are doing a great job ..and I'm very happy after watching this kind of vegan leather because lot's of animals are only killed for the leather😢
its ironic that their "secret compound" is almost certainly plastic. Cows that are being put down for meat also produce leather as byproduct. But noooo, plastic is better smh
synthetic leather is most often made using similar methods for sheet vinyl production, just get some sheet vinyl flooring from lowe's and stitch it into a wallet lol lol
It's almost certainly some sort of resin/rubber/polymer which could be natural (out of trees). The biggest plastic waste that couldn't be properly disposed (seems to be) are auto tires, so you'd better focus on them.
Plastic isn't an alive being, so there's no harming, and plastic can survive hundreds of years so it's is way better and humanitarian using it instead of cows
Bravo to these guys and their efforts to replace the animal leather industry! Best wishes for your continued success! Just a note that I don’t wear leather and don’t want to wear something that looks like leather. Vegans are at least part of the market for this fruit leather, and the last thing I want is to look like I’m wearing a dead animal on my feet. That’s not vanity. It’s about not helping normalize an industry I fundamentally disagree with. I don’t care how long it’s been going on. I don’t know the solution to this, but will talk about it with my friends. One guy has a pair of Birkenstocks that he’s worn for years. He still wears them despite some good-natured ribbing about a vegan walking on someone who was abused his or her entire short life. He’s got a point that he wants to wear them until they fall apart. I understand, because my Lexus has leather seats, but that’s not going to make me get rid of a good car (bought before I became vegan 13 years ago.) Birkenstocks may be a market for this company, especially once they get the longevity issue worked out. Anyway, I’m so happy to see this company’s efforts to make a product that is not so hard on animals and the environment. Well done! And thank you!
You should've told us what the additives are, that's why we even clicked on this video, to find out if it's truly eco friendly or if they're just mixing plastic in it The rest of the process I could've guessed on my own
Nothing beats a good real leather which lasts for lifetime. Also seems like these so called mango leather and the cactus leather etc go through a lot of heating and chemical works so that doesn't sound good.
Increase size to lower cost of production. have large trays made and a large hydrator to make larger sheets. also mecanize all the proceses you can to lower costs. like putting the frut by hand on the machine that will remove the seeds. that can be automated something like an arquimedes screw of those transportation bands. Im sure that industry like this will get goverment and private funding to make a larger product. The leather industry will complain all it wishes, but really what are they afraid of? This is NOT leather and wont have the durability of leather. the advantage. it grows on trees, wont put out high emissions, cheaper than raisig cattle.
It breaks my heart to see the living conditions the mangoes are kept in. They're kept in a very small area for their entire life - they can't even move around. The parents can only stand by in piles of dirt and filth as their children are taken away mercilessly.
I buy small handbag vegan leather from TJ Max for $15, so beautiful, can not complain any things with the price.They have so many beautiful handbags real leather ( cow’s leather) but very expensive ( over $150) But I am so happy with my vegan leather handbag.That OK if it’s not last long .Try one Friend.
3:40 It had value...just was ignored by the industry. I feel like...there was a huge gap between people born before 2000 and after. Of course watermelons are mostly water. The skin just snaps, the mango's skin bends. And the fibre in the fruit flesh is stupidly reduced by genetics 🤦♀️
$22/sqft??? That’s insane. As a maker of leather goods, that not feasible at all. And, they admit it not very durable. So… while I appreciate their ideas and innovation, the amounts currently to little more than and experiment or novelty. It’s not a viable alternative to real leather.
As I do hope beef production will lessen over the years, I wouldn’t want to make their deaths in vain. But this vegan leather is just the beginning to a new world.
We should rather work on reducing all that food waste to a minimum... Many of those mangos shown in the video still looked good. But the gustomer is picky af
So chemicals and plastic are added in anyway, it still lacks the robust qualities of leather either way. Starts peeling off like flakes in less than a year.
The production process of most vegan leather (PU) is not environmentally friendly, and can actually be toxic to wear.The products don't last as long as real leather which ends up in the landfill sooner taking longer to decompose. One top of that a lot of vegan leather products cost just as much as real leather, which I consider to be a rip off .
its not a solution but creates another problem ....mango or food can be created as soil ,soil for plant ,and put thats plant next to cow farm.....its like more natural chain process ...just like china turn desert in to green land
I was skeptical when I started watching and then I appreciated the product. Very interesting, I am impressed by the final example.
What are the additives? Also how does it wear and break in? What’s the protective glaze?
plastics
Lol, they can use any fruit and then add the "additives" + "coat" it in polymers... It's basically a scam for the gullible
the additives are mainly Pfas liquid and micro plastics liquid . great for the environment
Micro plastics. Very dangerous. Very hazardous to the environment.
what additives do you add?
The vast majority of vegan leather is produced from polyvinyl chloride (PVC) and polyurethane (PU). Each is a type of petroleum-based plastic - meaning it can take thousands of years for PU and PVC leather to biodegrade.
So... it is actually Resin leather with a tiny bit of dried mangos inside it.
Idk, they haven't even said anything about what type of additives they are using. Is it plastic or glue or... what is it? As a customer I'd really like to know what exactly I'm buying.
@halloooo1duuuuu right! Is the resin what is stopping the fruit from decomposing?
and the resin
may or may not be
biodegradable
It’s probably a plant based resin.
It's just PU or PVC with a vegetable filler. Nothing different than normal plastic.@@halloooo1duuuuu
what are the additives?
Micro plastics.
Fruit leather has been around for ages, I used to eat it as a kid.
In mexico they make clothing out of cactus leather.
Cactus skin and mango skin are very different. Don't need me to tell you how? No comparison whatsoever 🙄
Still da same princippleee fruit too leathhherrre
And cactus leather is safer for the environment. Cactus leather does not use PVC. Cactus leather is a plant-based vegan leather that is PVC-free and made from the leaves of the prickly pear cactus. While this mango leather use PVC.
What are the ingredients in vegan leather?
The vast majority of vegan leather is produced from polyvinyl chloride (PVC) and polyurethane (PU). Each is a type of petroleum-based plastic - meaning it can take thousands of years for PU and PVC leather to biodegrade.
people are not going ot stop consuming animals.the leather is just the by product .vegan leather is the cancer , to fool people and pollute more lands .
True. And this mango leather also use PVC and PU.
Is this a patented process? Can anyone do this? Because I see tones of mangoes wasting in my neighbourhood which I would love put to use.
Do you know the reasons for all that wasting?
This is basically making plastic fabric, and calling it for leather by adding a little bit of mango fiber to it.
Does anyone know what the additives are?
Isn’t most vegan leather just plastics
Most left wing positions fall apart after basic scrutiny. This is why they ban opposition opinions. They know they’re wrong
Not according to the vid.
Isnt that PU leather?
At least people wear them for a long time, sometimes years. But water bottles and plastic bags go straight into bins.
Maybe ... JUST maybe ... you watch the vid first before commenting on it.
Can we use these procedures for cactus leather?
Cactus leather is already superior to these. Cactus leather don't need additives like microplastics PVC and PU, while this mango leather need it.
What is that additives?!! that make mango leather ? Tell us
What's the formula, Hugo?
What kind of chemicals do you mix with it? I'm wanting to make some vegan leather myself. I use a lot of animal hides to connect with the animal spirits. Thing is, there's this tree I need to connect to, but I can't exactly tan a tree's hide. This'll help me a lot! Thanks!
@@TuriGamer Polymers are not all garbage, just as carbohydrates aren't all sugars. They're complex chains of organic compounds that have drastically changed how far we can go as humans!
What? You have just blown my mind. I hope that this does help you. Be well.
Instead of tanning a tree why don’t you use the tree bark to tan leather. That’s what vegetable tanned leather is. They use tree bark to tan leather since it has a lot of tannins.
@@wormhole331 It's a bit far removed and the leather would cause too much interference, otherwise it'd be perfect!
Can anyone tell what kind of additive they used? Name of the chemicals?
Even Hermes leather is cheaper than $22 sq ft. I’m all for making use of waste but a product that costs a lot more than real leather and only as durable as PU leather isn’t that great. Seems the mango pulp is just filler and their additives are just another resin/plastic holding it all together. You could probably make the leather from cow poop if you wanted to.
I don't think the final product is really environmental friendly since the process turning tons of mangos into vegan leather is somehow unclear with what makes the rain coating and what chemicals make the additive.
The mango waste itself is totally green waste and environmental friendly.
It's just about money from turning free raw material into profitable products to be on the shelf with high-priced tag leather products.
It will show their true intention when they have to buy mangos as a raw material. With more advance equipments and better management, mango importers won't make enough waste for their production anymore. They will have to do something then.
If they can produce less expensive real leather from such cow skin without impacting the environment, that would the best.
Cow skin is valuable and versatile byproduct waste from making beef. Keep in mind, the amount of cow skin produced is equivalent to the amount of beef people consume.
I love you for speaking the truth. 🤣
You're completely right. If we used the whole animal, the leather industry would have abundance of good resources!
Exactly what I was thinking. I would say natural cow hide > vegan leather > pu , pvc
Amazing comment love it , truth always is right
Yup 💯
And we have better PVC-free vegan leather already: cactus leather.
This is what we need .... So glad to see this .... Thankyou soo muchhhhh
12% food waste is awesome. It’s 40% in the US. Very cool video!
It’s good, i think the more new materials that are created, the more experimentation, the better the materials will become.
what are those additives?
These mangoes look very good for eating! Could you not use it for frozen mango puree making? Also dehydrated mango slices last years.
I think this stuff is already gone through the farm/stores as rejects and will be wasted (binned) if not used for something like this. You can't resell food waste, as food, well you could but you'd be in deep shit once regulatory found out!
What is the % of tannin in Mango pulp tan ? and PH ?
How does the recycle process of this product look like?
is it coated with PU?
my last leather jacket last for three years. And may be it suffered a little bit burning or chopping from other unknown bad guys, it still not eco friendly and durable enough for the price i had paid. Just only 20 $. I think a better eco friendly one with higher price like 35-50$ and last for 5-10 years still awesome choices than old plastic leather with short time value.
برآب تولید چرم وگان از مواد شیمایی هم استفاده میشود یا نه
I may not be vegan but I do believe in parallel structures.
This is then good. Keep it up!
As a South floridian.. Is it breathable as genuine leather or suffocating like poly?
There's synthetic polymers involved
Kindly , can you share with me the idea on how to get leather from banana stem
they should use turpentine mangoes as they have a lot more strong fibre in them
All plastic can be turned to fuel for motors.
How ?
great we can cause even more damage than we already caused producing plastic by turning the plastic back into some form of oil and then causing even more harm by then burning that fuel in cars! 😀
How much rainforest was destroyed for mango plantations?
Irrelevant
The most popular use for freshly clear cut rainforest is grazing for livestock.
@@alexphelps7042 That's wrong as well. Rainforest should be left alone, not exploited for mining or farming
It’s not just rainforest being wrecked for and by the cattle industry.
I’ve quit avocados unless they’re local because people in Mexico are illegally cutting down the fir trees that monarch butterflies travel all that way to rest on and mate.
I love avocado, but it’s just not worth having them when avocados from Mexico are a big reason for the extinction of a magnificent species. (And I’m lucky that I live somewhere that avocados grow on trees.)
After seeing countless cases of animal abuse in leather, wool, fur, industries, im now switching to vegan fashion. Im glad there’s leather alternative like this. Hope it’s going to be a mainstream fashion soon so it will be more available to a wider consumer base.
Do you mean Plant Based Vegan Leather cause a majority of vegan leather currently out there are made of plastic?
It's not that environment friendly as you think. They have to add a lot of additives including resin (plastic) to bond it together and feels like leather. You can't really recycle resin, it's toxic and a petroleum-based product.
God create animal , so human can consume them! it is weird you hate how God way does!
it´s not leather.
@spasiba24 Why did he create them with sentience !!!
And to feel pain and fear. Stop making excuses for abusing and murdering animals.
Sooo….is this going to be as bad a Pinatext? Pinatext uses oil based resin
Such a great idea..you are doing a great job ..and I'm very happy after watching this kind of vegan leather because lot's of animals are only killed for the leather😢
Why are we making materials out of food? Should we be eating the mangoes?
There should be a follow up of this video
its ironic that their "secret compound" is almost certainly plastic. Cows that are being put down for meat also produce leather as byproduct. But noooo, plastic is better smh
synthetic leather is most often made using similar methods for sheet vinyl production, just get some sheet vinyl flooring from lowe's and stitch it into a wallet lol lol
It's almost certainly some sort of resin/rubber/polymer which could be natural (out of trees).
The biggest plastic waste that couldn't be properly disposed (seems to be) are auto tires, so you'd better focus on them.
@@alth000If the ingredient is that ok for the environment, it raises a question to me as to why they're keeping it a secret in the first place.
@@FreGee1 trade secret. A lot of companies do that.
Plastic isn't an alive being, so there's no harming, and plastic can survive hundreds of years so it's is way better and humanitarian using it instead of cows
Rebrand to Mango Leather.
You're welcome.
Bravo to these guys and their efforts to replace the animal leather industry! Best wishes for your continued success!
Just a note that I don’t wear leather and don’t want to wear something that looks like leather. Vegans are at least part of the market for this fruit leather, and the last thing I want is to look like I’m wearing a dead animal on my feet. That’s not vanity. It’s about not helping normalize an industry I fundamentally disagree with. I don’t care how long it’s been going on.
I don’t know the solution to this, but will talk about it with my friends.
One guy has a pair of Birkenstocks that he’s worn for years. He still wears them despite some good-natured ribbing about a vegan walking on someone who was abused his or her entire short life. He’s got a point that he wants to wear them until they fall apart. I understand, because my Lexus has leather seats, but that’s not going to make me get rid of a good car (bought before I became vegan 13 years ago.)
Birkenstocks may be a market for this company, especially once they get the longevity issue worked out.
Anyway, I’m so happy to see this company’s efforts to make a product that is not so hard on animals and the environment. Well done! And thank you!
You should've told us what the additives are, that's why we even clicked on this video, to find out if it's truly eco friendly or if they're just mixing plastic in it
The rest of the process I could've guessed on my own
Nothing beats a good real leather which lasts for lifetime.
Also seems like these so called mango leather and the cactus leather etc go through a lot of heating and chemical works so that doesn't sound good.
Good real leather or do you mean the skins of abused murdered sentient animals. Let's say it how it is and not sugar coat it with fancy names.
Yeah, because they don't use chemicals or lots of energy to make leather do they? It's just fairy dust and happy smiles at the tanner.
I think it'll work better if you add chitin
Why don't you try to make cotton
Very interesting video on mango fruit leather . First time watching . Nice business. .
Brings a whole new meaning to fruit by the foot
You stretching it fam. So how long will this shoes last? 2 months? 🙄
I want to buy vegan leather from you so
How much do you cost per square feet ?
In the EU we use the metric system. Not feet.
There's quite alot of waste for other fruits too like bananas because they look for seeds.
Increase size to lower cost of production. have large trays made and a large hydrator to make larger sheets. also mecanize all the proceses you can to lower costs. like putting the frut by hand on the machine that will remove the seeds. that can be automated something like an arquimedes screw of those transportation bands. Im sure that industry like this will get goverment and private funding to make a larger product.
The leather industry will complain all it wishes, but really what are they afraid of? This is NOT leather and wont have the durability of leather.
the advantage. it grows on trees, wont put out high emissions, cheaper than raisig cattle.
hello business insider. I am a student and we need to make a content for our video. your video really inspire us . can we use your clip.
It seems to be mostly plastic/resin.
It breaks my heart to see the living conditions the mangoes are kept in. They're kept in a very small area for their entire life - they can't even move around. The parents can only stand by in piles of dirt and filth as their children are taken away mercilessly.
Why is this in English if this is BI India?
This isn’t new.
General Mills has been making Fruit Roll-ups since 1983.
Guys plz come to Egypt. 🇪🇬. We have a huge mountain 🏔️ of mangos
But what about all the pain the mangos went through?
This is so different than the one i made on the basement
Fancy being able to eat something like this, very handy on a long hike
I buy small handbag vegan leather from TJ Max for $15, so beautiful, can not complain any things with the price.They have so many beautiful handbags real leather ( cow’s leather) but very expensive ( over $150)
But I am so happy with my vegan leather handbag.That OK if it’s not last long .Try one Friend.
This is great! No waste of fruit. No need animal's skin.
In india its called aaam papda
And we eat this leather 😅😂
Yah i know right its really tasty. First when i saw it my mouth was waterinh😂😂😂dried mango sheet
I would prefer mango juice or frozen mango dice from those mango “waste”.
3:40 It had value...just was ignored by the industry.
I feel like...there was a huge gap between people born before 2000 and after. Of course watermelons are mostly water. The skin just snaps, the mango's skin bends. And the fibre in the fruit flesh is stupidly reduced by genetics 🤦♀️
You know... Those mangos don't look spoilt or rotten at all 🤔
$22/sqft??? That’s insane. As a maker of leather goods, that not feasible at all. And, they admit it not very durable. So… while I appreciate their ideas and innovation, the amounts currently to little more than and experiment or novelty. It’s not a viable alternative to real leather.
Love from india ❤❤
A baby calf came to the side of the road and said "Can you help me?"
Vengan but not green. Mangos use way to much water and fuel to get to the Netherlands
At least they're trying
At least they are leaving animals
@@jaisinghrajpurohit4003 and try to use less plastic cause a majority of vegan leather currently out there are made of plastic
Mangoes are made for Eating and not to be made bags. Use a cloth cotton bag instead.
Massive respect to you guys
Wow...... I Wish To Use This 😍
Kombucha leather doesnt use additives
Can you make hand pump Wells with this leather?
I hope so it breaks my heart to think that hand pump Wells might contaminate vegans water
Half of those mangoes look good.
why call it leather? why not like, mangoline or something?
same with vegetarian meat...
they still put plastic in it
Turning mangoes into leather? That’s *a-peeling*! Would you rock a jacket made from your favorite fruit? 🥭👕
This is great but it’s not real leather. Real leather comes from animals. I wonder how durable this is.
Now I get why Tom ate his shoe
Great initiative
Whats wrong with the mangoes? They look perfect to me
Those mangoes could be used as food.
why are the mangoes a waste? they look edible. people wasting food
Great idea 💡
Good work
🥰💟SUPPORT VEGAN LEATHER.
Do you mean Plant Based Vegan Leather cause a majority of vegan leather currently out there are made of plastic?
why "leather" ?
As I do hope beef production will lessen over the years, I wouldn’t want to make their deaths in vain. But this vegan leather is just the beginning to a new world.
This leather is plastic and environmental hazard. Sigh
We should rather work on reducing all that food waste to a minimum... Many of those mangos shown in the video still looked good. But the gustomer is picky af
So chemicals and plastic are added in anyway, it still lacks the robust qualities of leather either way. Starts peeling off like flakes in less than a year.
what's wrong with those mangoes. they don't look like waste to me.
The production process of most vegan leather (PU) is not environmentally friendly, and can actually be toxic to wear.The products don't last as long as real leather which ends up in the landfill sooner taking longer to decompose. One top of that a lot of vegan leather products cost just as much as real leather, which I consider to be a rip off .
Yatta yatta yatta. All not true!
all these mangos could have feed thousands of pigs that would contribute to the production of crunchy bacon, ribs, carnitas and much more :)
its not a solution but creates another problem ....mango or food can be created as soil ,soil for plant ,and put thats plant next to cow farm.....its like more natural chain process ...just like china turn desert in to green land
It's basically dehydrated pectin films
I think Mango brand can take initiative to claim their leather jackets are made from Mangoes😊
"several additives" "natural"
Trash mangoes??? Who would do such a mean thing.
thanks