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Footwear start-up Allbirds latest creation: plant-based leather 26 Feb, 2021 04:28 AM 3 minutes to read Aimee Shaw is a business reporter focusing on retail, small businessaimee.shaw@nzherald.co.nz@AceeyShaw The New Zealand-founded, US-based woollen shoe company Allbirds has created a plant-based leather it plans to commercialise throughout the fashion industry. The company, which established a bricks-and-mortar presence in Auckland in mid-2019, has been at the helm of natural and environmentally-friendly material development over the past five years following its inception in 2014. As well as using New Zealand merino wool in some of its footwear, it has created and patented shoe soles derived from sugar cane and silky fabrics made from eucalyptus trees. Its products are also made from recycled plastic bottles, cardboard, castor bean oil and wood fibre, among other sustainable materials. ....