16.04.10
There were many adjectives applied to women's
shoes - architecture, fetish, pretty in the case of this season's heels midway popular - but not environmentally friendly one. Until now. As Turf, an awareness day aimed at inspiring the environment, celebrates its 40th anniversary, the latest rage in the sustainable fashion has emerged: the shoe recyclable.
An estimated 300m shoes are thrown into the U.S. each year, "said Ken Barker, a former boss Levi's and Adidas who now heads Naturally Advanced Technologies (NAT), a green clothing company."The impact of landfill is huge shoes," said Barker. "There are a lot of rubber in most shoes, and I do not trust it is too dissimilar from car tires - and yet you can not throw the tires in landfills, they should be recycled."
So why not the same thing for rubber shoes? Terra Plana was founded by Galahad Clark of the Clark shoe body, use vegetable dyes environmentally friendly and recycled materials in the construction of his shoe soles. U.S. brand of shoes TOMS shoes manufactures from recycled bottles and can be persuaded of recycled rubber.Green sneakers silence by the use of sports brand Brooks are made from recycled materials and 50 percent say they use less oil and verve in their creation of the one used in a standard style.
Source: Financial Times