Amazon condom factory: A sustainable way to profit from Brazil's forests
by The Daily Eye Team December 23 2013, 1:47 pm Estimated Reading Time: 0 mins, 21 secsDeep in the Amazon rainforest, in Brazil‘s far western region, tappers walk the forest trails, harvesting liquid latex from the trunks of the bountiful native rubber trees.
But while their grandparents collected rubber for military use in World War Two, today it is used for lovemaking, not war – transformed into condoms at a factory in the town of Xapuri in Acre state. Read more