Plastic bottles that have been recycled 

 Before deciding to buy vegan shoes online, you should know that the uppers of Greensole shoes are constructed from recycled plastic bottles or PET. You’re probably familiar with it as the plastic used in food packaging and plastic water bottles (cringe). When PET is recycled, it is cleaned, ground, and melted to create a thread, giving plastic a second life and minimizing rubbish in our landfills. And, you may be wondering, when you decide to buy vegan shoes online, what happens to this thread? After then, it’s woven into a variety of textiles to make them comfortable and fashionable uppers for Greensole shoes. The technology has advanced to the point that we can now replicate animal-based materials like leather and suede with recycled plastic. You’d never know they were recycled shoes if we didn’t tell you when you order recycled shoes. 

 Each pair of Greensole shoes, when you order recycled shoes, comprises between three and seven recycled PET bottles, depending on the design. Additionally, there is one point. Our PET supplier is certified under the “Recycled Global Standard,” which assures the traceability of these materials’ manufacturing lines. This is how we can manufacture recyclable plastic shoes. 

Eco-design

 Each year, about 25 billion pairs of shoes are produced, contributing significantly to the textile industry’s ranking as the world’s second-biggest polluter. Because materials and production account for 70% of the carbon footprint of a pair of shoes, we are concentrating our efforts there first by employing recycled and bio-based components and streamlining the manufacturing process. This is why it is very smart to buy sustainable shoes.