Willow Earth cotton canvas & vegan rucksacks

Willow Earth (Sussex) is a company that makes beautiful rucksacks from strong cotton canvas, with natural cork logos. It uses offcuts to make pretty wallets and purses, so there’s no waste.

Cork is a ‘vegan leather’ that is made by stripping the bark of trees in Spain and Portugal every nine years or so, but the trees are not cut down.

Keeping the cork industry alive (in a world of plastic wine corks) is a good way to save these forests from being cut down for development, which in turn protects local wildlife that use the forests for food and shelter.

Also makes vegan leather backpacks

This brand also makes vegan leather backpacks, made from an eco-leather that is partly made from recycled pineapple waste, from the fruit industry.

It has a strong metal clasp at the front, a zipped pocket and multiple interior pockets. And easily can fit a 13in laptop.