03-29-2019, 05:48 PM
https://mexiconewsdaily.com/news/eco-sho...m-seaweed/
In Quintana Roo, sargassum seaweed is a curse, but for a Guanajuato inventor it has the potential to become environmentally friendly footwear.
A new line of eco-shoes — made with recycled plastic and sargassum — has been designed by the firm Renovare, which had already spent several years experimenting with PET plastic.
Renovare founder Jorge Castro Ramos told the newspaper El Financiero that it took the company five years of trial and error to reach the stage where it could obtain clothing-grade textile fibers out of recycled plastic bottles.
The resulting polyester, he explained, has been patented as a Mexican product and can also be used to manufacture handbags, backpacks and sportswear.
Seaweed shoes don't sound particularly enticing, to be honest - although, it sounds as though it was used mainly because there happened to be loads of it lying around. Perhaps it'll be possible to people in other parts of the world to adapt the same techniques by using whatever's locally available (which, after all, sounds like the most eco-friendly option of all ).
In any case, it'll be interesting to see whether these prove to be successful.
In Quintana Roo, sargassum seaweed is a curse, but for a Guanajuato inventor it has the potential to become environmentally friendly footwear.
A new line of eco-shoes — made with recycled plastic and sargassum — has been designed by the firm Renovare, which had already spent several years experimenting with PET plastic.
Renovare founder Jorge Castro Ramos told the newspaper El Financiero that it took the company five years of trial and error to reach the stage where it could obtain clothing-grade textile fibers out of recycled plastic bottles.
The resulting polyester, he explained, has been patented as a Mexican product and can also be used to manufacture handbags, backpacks and sportswear.
Seaweed shoes don't sound particularly enticing, to be honest - although, it sounds as though it was used mainly because there happened to be loads of it lying around. Perhaps it'll be possible to people in other parts of the world to adapt the same techniques by using whatever's locally available (which, after all, sounds like the most eco-friendly option of all ).
In any case, it'll be interesting to see whether these prove to be successful.
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