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Knitted Algae Polo

Knitted Algae Polo

Vollebak

£395

The ocean grows enormous fields of seaweed that don’t need soil, irrigation, pesticides or fertiliser. All they need is sunlight, saltwater and dissolved nutrients and can grow up to 18 inches in a day. That mix of low maintenance and hyper growth might make seaweed the most important raw material on the planet. For most of human history, everything we wore came from one of three places, plants, animals, and then oil. From animal pelts to cotton fields, sheep farms, and fossil fuels. Seaweed could be the next place we look. Seaweed is marine algae and inside its cell walls are biopolymers that

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