Sustainable Handmade Amazonian Bags

Promoting the revitalization of rubber in the Amazon, generating income with inclusion, avoiding deforestation, and rescuing the rubber tree identity is what moves the work of  Vegetable Encauchados of the Amazon. Through the sustainable organic extraction of native latex, using social technology and involving indigenous peoples, rubber tappers, riverine communities, quilombolas and agrarian reform settlers, organic slippers made of native rubber and vegetable fibers, in addition to utensils, bio-jewelry, accessories and packaging are produced. Another important point in production is the elimination of all petroleum-derived additives in the processing of rubber, replaced by natural products such as vegetable oil, carnauba wax, vegetable stearine and other vegetable fillers from agribusiness residues – açai, muru-muru, Brazil nut, andiroba and pracaxi. The production of the vegetable rubber bags employs handcraft artisan women who support their families in the small villages of the Am