This line of bags is manufactured with algae—and the 1st run is almost sold out:
. makes their Mobius line of backpacks, totes and travel bags out of recycled products. However, the foam for their bags, which provides padding for laptops and shoulder cushioning, among other purposes, is made from algae foam. Tentree CEO and Founder Derrick Emsley, 28, says that the inventive process actually makes the environment better than they found it.
To make the foam, algae-filled water gets pumped into a filtration system. When the algae clump together, they float to the top and are scraped off while the filtered water goes back to the source. The algae mass is then dried before being expanded into the semi-spongy foam final product.Algae in various stages of collectionThe Tentree team made more than 30 sketches of what the bag could look like before narrowing it down to one design to use as a starting point for the prototype.
They set a goal of $35,000 but raised $270,000 through the sale of more than 2,300 bags during the month-long campaign. Since making the bags commercially available, they’ve sold an additional 1,000 and expect to be entirely sold out of their first production run of 5,000 in the next month.
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