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Why Guayule is good for the environment and your wallet
The daily message we receive from the media is that green is good. Green cars, green buildings, green plastic and now even green rubber should be the focus that we, as consumers, maintain. This is proving easier and easier to do; especially with products such as latex rubber made from a desert plant called guayule becoming more common.
How the AIDS Epidemic Brought Back a Desert Plant Forgotten
Since the AIDS crisis beginning in the 1980s, members of the medical profession wear latex gloves as diligently as they do scrubs. Health care workers, with this increased use of protective wear, noticed more and more how the material irritated their skin and developed latex allergies.
