A Tokyo startup has taken a Japanese food staple and developed it into a biomass plastic that could help the environment and struggling farmers, Two Japanese startups are making use of some of Japan’s annual 660,000 tons of fish waste to produce a sustainable leather that could help fishing communities around the globe.
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