Could Maine Make Shoes Out of Ocean Trash?
SEAFOODNEWS.COM [Bangor Daily News] By Erin Rhoda, - July 24, 2015 -
The world produces a lot of trash that ends up in the ocean — especially plastic. It’s enough to place five grocery bags full of plastic trash on every foot of every single country’s coastline.
That’s a lot of plastic debris, and Maine is no exception.
Every year, Maine’s Coastal Cleanup event draws more than a thousand volunteers who clear trash from Maine’s coast.
Recently, the organization Parley for the Oceans and shoe brand Adidas partnered on what they called a “world first”: A shoe prototype made entirely of trash. The shoe’s yarns and filaments came from ocean waste and illegal deep-sea fishing nets.
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