Salmon leather may put fish skin on the catwalk

Salmon skin is 'in'

This French company is collecting fish skin

bound for restaurant trash cans

and turning it into luxury leather

Ictyos gather 10 to 12 tonnes of skin per year

and tan them in batches of 1,000

in a process that takes around two weeks

producing leather with a resistance

similar to cow leather

(SOUNDBITE) (French) ICTYOS CO-FOUNDER AND PRESIDENT, BENJAMIN MALATRAIT, SAYING:

"Today, it's our generation's role to build the world in which we want to develop, to grow, that we will leave for our children. So, I think this logic of recycling, by using an unused resource instead of further exhausting the planet of resources, it's the basics of all good projects. And I really encourage all young companies to go for it, and dive into it."