How Adidas Turns Plastic Bottles Into Shoes
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In 2015 Adidas partnered with Parley for the Oceans to turn marine pollution like plastic bottles into shoes and sportswear. Like its Ultraboost and Alphaboost shoes, the two companies have prevented over 2,800 tons of plastic from reaching the ocean. And in 2019 Adidas expects to make 11 million pairs of shoes with recycled marine waste. But how are these shoes made?
Plastic bottles that contain PET are broken down into plastic flakes then cut into small resin pellets. These pellets are melted to create a filament, which is spun into what Adidas calls Ocean Plastic, a replacement for virgin polyester. Each item in the Parley collection is made of at least 75% recycled plastic. Adidas is also developing a 100% recyclable shoe called Futurecraft Loop, which is expected to be available in 2021.
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How Adidas Turns Plastic Bottles Into Shoes
You’ve now created microplastics, brilliant.
You know I live in Florida and there is a very small amount of trash on the beach and waterways, the majority of people don’t litter, idk where they’re getting all of these statistics from….
hemp shoes…duh
*Ay bro your shoes are trash!*
*C o r r e c t*
Video: But how are these shoes made?
Me: um… Child labor?
Adi-das not adid-us ffs
I don’t Care what they used to make it.
"I just love Adidas."
Who plastic cares ? party is going around the work some people don’t get ticket inside enjoying like the can !
I. Watching this in 2030
amazing great work
so we were supposed to be fucked but adidas is saving us? lol. what about the boxes for those shoes? and the papers to wrap those shoes? how many trees do they have to take down for 400m shoes? I guess destroying the forest is fine as long as we are saving on plastic? they teamed up with parley for pr purposes to increase brand awareness and pretend that they are eco friendly… guess it’s better than nothing lol
You’re pronouncing "Adidas" incorrectly.
omg she keeps saying Adidas wrong! it ah-diy-das
Wow i love what they are doing. Now i will go with adidas everytime
If they are made of recycled plastic why TF are they so costly.
We could support to if it was cheaper.
*"Damn those are some high quality trash you got there"*
Funny how this wont stop us from destroying our planet
That’s great steps
bruh they 200 euros dafaq
You can only comment
If you saw this on your reccomendation
I own of the shoes from ocean plastic collection and damn they are awesome.. Incredible initiative by adidas..
So im wearing shoes that was made by plastic bottles
Adidas my all time favourite
Dame… This is awesome! I wish I got one of those shoes but I didn’t know they were a thing.
Imagine we gonna wear trash.
so expensive bottles..
Ayooo I help the picking plastic thing in maldives … Somtimes xD
“What are your shoes made of?”
“Trash.”
We can technically think we are wearing plastic to our foot
I think i just felt in love
gonna get me some recycled adididadasidas
W
To bad that the prices are insane and the quality non existent
Nicee
Thats a reason why i will buy from Adidas
Your shoes are garbage
lets give a round of applause for Adidas
*NoW pLs*
The secret ingredient is Chinese children
We must protect our environment nature for our selfes. We must do cycling ,walking without transport and plant trees beside roads and must through mango seeds or seeds(which we through for waste)that are capable of grow like neem fruit-seed plz help #plz help ouselves # and also we must not be slave of robots or fully dependent on robots # robots #
No need to watch the whole video, it’s alchemy
C’mon Adidas even DIY vids can do it better just by using glue gun..