Adidas’s New Sneakers Are Literally Made From Ocean Trash
German sportswear giant Adidas has created a prototype of a sustainable new sneaker constructed almost entirely from recycled ocean garbage.
Revealed on Monday June 29, 2015 as part of a recent environmental initiative, the shoe’s upper part is made from disused fishing nets, discarded yarns and filaments, plus other ocean waste. While not dragged out of the ocean, its base is still fashioned from a sustainable cushioning material.
The trashy sneakers are the result of Adidas’ recent partnership with Parley For The Oceans, an organization aiming to put a stop to the pollution of the world’s oceans.
So, wanna walk trashy? Hang tight for six months… Adidas will begin using recycled plastic into its shoes by early 2016.
More info: news.adidas.com (h/t: ecouterre | huffingtonpost )
Adidas has revealed a new, eco-friendly prototype trainer made using ocean trash
The green part of the upper shoe is made from disused fishing nets
To obtain the nets, Adidas sought the help of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society…
… Who bravely tracked an illegal poaching vessel off of Africa’s West Coast for 110 days to get them
By planning to use ocean garbage in its shoes by early 2016, Adidas hopes to reduce the number of marine life deaths
George East
20-Year-Old Engineer’s Idea To Make Ocean Clean Itself Will Be Launched Next Year
Boyan Slat is a 20 year old with an idea on how to clean plastic trash from our oceans. The Ocean Cleanup initiative wants to reduce the amount of trash in the oceans by employing floating barriers that are moored to the seabed. They would collect lighter-than-water plastic trash with the help of the ocean currents and without harming sea life.
The pilot, which will be deployed near Tsushima Island (located between Japan and Korea) in the first quarter of 2016, will test the durability and viability of the project. It will be only 2000 meters long, a far cry from the planned 100 kilometers length, but it will still be the longest floating structure on Earth.
Cleaning up plastic garbage in ocean, like the infamous Great Pacific Garbage Patch, is impractical with ships. However, the 100km stationary cleanup array could remove 42% of the Garbage Patch over 10 years, 70,320,000kg in total.
More info: theoceancleanup.com | Facebook | Twitter (h/t: boredpanda )
When it’s deployed in 2016, the 2,000m floating line will become the longest floating structure in the world.
This concept will test out 20-year-old Boyan Slat’s plan to rid the oceans of floating plastic waste.
This plan would use ocean currents to skim the plastic trash without harming the sea life.
The eventual Ocean Cleanup Array would be a 100km long and able to collect 70,320,000kg of plastic waste over 10 years
Estimated clean up cost would be roughly 4.53 euros (5.04 USD) per kilogram – 3% of the cost of other potential clean-up methods
Martynas Klimas
Writes like a mad dervish, rolls to dodge responsibility, might have bitten the Moon once.
