{"id":6487,"date":"2019-11-11T09:13:33","date_gmt":"2019-11-11T06:13:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=6487"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:40","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:40","slug":"the-kenyan-man-making-leather-jackets-out-of-fish-skins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2019\/11\/11\/the-kenyan-man-making-leather-jackets-out-of-fish-skins\/","title":{"rendered":"The Kenyan Man Making Leather Jackets Out Of Fish Skins"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>By BBC Africa<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One person&#8217;s trash can be\nanother one&#8217;s treasure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s a terrible cliche &#8211; but in Newton Owino&#8217;s case it&#8217;s fairly\nappropriate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Seafood industries throw out tonnes of fish waste every year &#8211;\nmostly in the form of fish skins &#8211; damaging the local environment in the\nprocess.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But where most people just saw fish waste, Newton Owino spotted\nan opportunity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Through a process called fish tanning, he salvages these\ndiscarded skins and eventually turns them into leather products like jackets,\nhats or shoes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Most of his scaly leather products are then exported to the European fashion market\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/av\/world-africa-50252032\/the-kenyan-man-making-leather-jackets-out-of-fish-skins\">Watch full feature>><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By BBC Africa One person&#8217;s trash can be another one&#8217;s treasure. It&#8217;s a terrible cliche &#8211; but in Newton Owino&#8217;s case it&#8217;s fairly appropriate. Seafood industries throw out tonnes of&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":6488,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6487\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}