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Article: SUSTAINABLE FASHION
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- Info-Prod Research (Middle East)
- Article date:
- July 21, 2009
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According to ANBA: Recycle, reuse and reinvent are verbs often
used by small businesses in Brazil that invest in sustainability to
develop products that do not harm the environment. This week, the
city of S?o Paulo hosted "Mostra Acess?rios" (Accessories
Exhibition), a trade fair showcasing the work of designers from
across the country, and visited by over 5,000 people from Brazil and
abroad. Among the 76 exhibitors present at the fair, there were many
people concerned with working in an ecologically correct manner.
Canvas for lorries, wood scraps, patches of cloth, plastic scraps,
rubber and PET bottles are turned into purses, belts, necklaces,
earrings, bracelets and lighting fixtures. ...