Wearable Bananas? This Ugandan Company is Giving Textile Waste the Slip

What one material could make placemats, rugs, and hair extensions? This miracle fiber is bananas! Learn about the non-profit transforming this popular plant’s waste into something that is wonderful—in more ways than one!

We pass by them in the produce section, we eat them for breakfast, and… we use them for hair extensions?! We’re letting you in on the secret, second use that lies within a common household fruit—the banana—and showing how one company in Uganda is reducing waste and making the most out of this multi-use material!

By Renee Laroche-Rheaume