Every year, the food industry generates up to 8 million tons of crab, lobster, and shrimp shells, many of which are either dumped back in the ocean or end up in landfills. Now, a biomaterials startup called TômTex wants you to wear them instead.

Responding to an open call, members of the public were invited to contribute sentimental but broken objects to feature in R for Repair, an exhibition of repaired objects presented at the V&A museum as part of London Design Festival.

The West sees its culpability in this man-made disaster but prefers to blame the victim.

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