Sustainable option: A worker collecting the middle section of a banana plant known as the pseudostem, which is usually left behind in the field after harvest, to be turned into materials for fabric, in Pingtung, Taiwan. — Reuters
Entrepreneur Nelson Yang is reaching back into Taiwan’s history to turn the humble banana plant into an unlikely sustainable textile.
Taiwan is now the world’s dominant producer of advanced semiconductors but the yellow fruit, still widely grown on the island, was once a source of patriotic pride.
