{"id":79134,"date":"2019-12-12T07:22:12","date_gmt":"2019-12-12T06:22:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/?p=79134"},"modified":"2020-09-23T11:28:33","modified_gmt":"2020-09-23T09:28:33","slug":"indian-entrepreneur-creates-a-zero-waste-vegan-wool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/indian-entrepreneur-creates-a-zero-waste-vegan-wool\/","title":{"rendered":"Indian Entrepreneur Creates a Zero-Waste Vegan Wool"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many brands, labels, and designers are forgoing animal materials\u00a0in favor of more ethical and sustainable fabrics, and Indian entrepreneur\u00a0Gowri Shankar\u00a0is looking to make your\u00a0sweaters and knits\u00a0cruelty-free.<\/p>\n<p>Shankar, the founder of\u00a0Faborg\u00a0has developed\u00a0a vegan wool alternative that is both eco-friendly and compassionate. &#8216;Weganool&#8217;\u00a0s a new vegan material derived from\u00a0Calotropis, a flowering\u00a0milkweed-like plant native to Asia and Northern Africa that produces a plant-based wool-like textile with a soft sheen. When\u00a0spun with 70 percent organic cotton,\u00a0the Calotropis fiber\u00a0becomes a luxurious, cozy material comparable to cashmere.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many brands, labels, and designers are forgoing animal materials\u00a0in favor of more ethical and sustainable fabrics, and Indian entrepreneur\u00a0Gowri Shankar\u00a0is looking to make your\u00a0sweaters and knits\u00a0cruelty-free. Shankar, the founder of\u00a0Faborg\u00a0has developed\u00a0a vegan wool alternative that is both eco-friendly and compassionate. &#8216;Weganool&#8217;\u00a0s a new vegan material derived from\u00a0Calotropis, a flowering\u00a0milkweed-like plant native to Asia and Northern [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","nova_meta_subtitle":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5572],"tags":[13444,11323,12468],"supplier":[17503],"class_list":["post-79134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bio-based","tag-fabrics","tag-naturalfibers","tag-textiles","supplier-weganool"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79134\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79134"},{"taxonomy":"supplier","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/supplier?post=79134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}