5 July, 2015:
Adidas announced on Monday that it had created an initial prototype for shoe made almost completely from recycled garbage reclaimed from the ocean.
The trash used to create the shoe was collected by project collaborator The Sea Shepherd Conservation Society. This shoe was made possible by a recent partnership between Adidas and Parley for the Oceans, an environmental organization aiming to
stop pollution of the world’s oceans.
Unfortunately this shoe is not made for sale. An Adidas spokeswoman told The Huffington Post: “This is not a plan, this is an action. We did this to show what we are capable of doing when we all put our heads together.”
The shoe company, however, will start to introduce recycled plastic into the manufacturing of its shoes by early 2016.
