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Article

31 Mar 2003

Author:
Anne Blair Gould, Radio Nederland

GIANT goes for Wild Rubber

Yet rubber can be sustainably produced and in the Amazon rainforests [of Brazil], forest people are doing just that – helped by the multi-national bicycle manufacturer GIANT that has just ordered thousands of "wild rubber" bike-bags and saddlebags…the French company "Hermes" has used wild rubber in the production of some of its bags and purses these last four years.