Making leather from beer with Brett Cotten of Arda Biomaterials

Who needs a cow to make leather when you've got beer? Brett Cotten is co-founder of London-based Arda Biomaterials and in this episode we talked about:

🐄 The problems of the traditional leather industry

👜 New Grain, Arda's sustainable leather alternative

🍺 Creating local supply chains by co-locating with breweries and distilleries around the world

🎡 The synthetic biology scene in London, and how the UK is investing heavily into biotech and material science

#leather #climatetech #beer #spentgrain #synbio #syntheticbiology

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