adidas Unveils the World's First Shoe Upper Made Completely From Ocean Waste

Upon teaming up with active preservation organization Parley for the Oceans, adidas has unveiled the world's first shoe upper made entirely from solid ocean pollutants such as disregarded plastics and illegal deep-sea gill nets. Released alongside a talk hosted by the United Nations on June 29, the new conservation-forward design presented by adidas features the retrieved nets from an illegal poaching vessel off the coast of South Africa that have been fortified and woven to create the shoe's bo...