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Peruvian rubber farmers on board for footwear start-up

27/03/2013

A footwear start-up that aims to use rubber from 33 Peruvian farmers and locally grown organic cotton is raising funds on Kickstarter to put the first lines into production. The brains behind Project Piola, Joshua Rudd and Antoine Burnier, volunteered in Peru for a year and “fell in love with” the country. “It started through a random encounter...

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