Experimental clothing brand Vollebak has created a hoodie from eucalyptus trees dyed with pomegranate, which will biodegrade in a compost heap within eight weeks.
Made from pulped eucalyptus and beech wood that has been sourced from sustainably managed forests, the plant-based jumper achieves its a mossy hue from being dyed with pomegranate peel.
It is designed to be fully biodegradable and compostable.
"The Plant and Pomegranate Hoodie feels like a normal hoodie, looks like a normal hoodie, and lasts as long as a normal hoodie, but it starts its life in nature and is designed to end up there too," said Vollebak co-founder Steve Tidball.
"So when the hoodie has reached the end of its life ? whether that's in three years' time or 30 ? it can be put out with the compost or buried in the garden."
The hoodie will decompose at different rates depending on how it is composted, with warmer, bacteria-filled environments breaking down the material quicker.
Vollebak calculates that it will completely break down within 12 weeks if buried in soil, or eight weeks in a home compost heap, and even faster in an industrial composting facility.

To create the hoodie, Vollebak looked back 50 centuries to the earliest humans, who wore biodegradable clothes.
"If we look back at Otzi man ? one of our ancestors who was found preserved in ice for over 5,000 years ? his clothes were made of plants, tree bark, grass, and animal skins," said Tidball.

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