The WaterSkins team of Casper van der Luijt, Maaike Stoelinga and Gijs Arnold comes from Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands.
WaterSkins proposes an artificial leather production process all while treating wastewater. The project wants to contribute to sufficient clean water worldwide in two ways. First of all, by making the purification of wastewater more profitable. The wastewater treatment process produces the polymer Kaumera, which is then treated into a leather-like material. Creating valuable materials like leather substitutes makes it more financially interesting to purify wastewater. At the same time, WaterSkin can replace some of the heavily polluting production of leather products and thus also provide more clean water!
