05 Aug What apple leather is (and why it doesn’t smell of fruit)

  It's the question I get asked most. And I'm always glad when people ask it. Does it smell of apple? No. Does it rot if it gets wet? No, either. Is it actually durable? Yes. I get the confusion. When someone hears "apple leather" for the first time, the most natural thing is to imagine something fragile, organic in the most literal sense, maybe with a smell. Something that's clearly not what you want in a bag you'll use every day. But apple leather isn't that. Apple leather is a technical material made from the waste left over from processing apples. The skins, the seeds, the pulp the food industry throws away. What normally gets binned. That waste goes through a transformation process where it's ground down, mixed with other...