{"id":57839,"date":"2019-02-12T06:48:07","date_gmt":"2019-02-12T06:48:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.i-believe.org\/?p=57839"},"modified":"2019-02-12T06:48:07","modified_gmt":"2019-02-12T06:48:07","slug":"here-are-vegan-sneakers-that-are-plant-based-and-biodegradable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/2019\/02\/12\/here-are-vegan-sneakers-that-are-plant-based-and-biodegradable\/","title":{"rendered":"Here are &#8216;vegan&#8217; sneakers that are plant-based and biodegradable"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ever since Veja, a French shoe brand, was founded fourteen years ago, it has been trying to make shoe production more ethical and environment-friendly. And the company&#8217;s latest offering,\u00a0the Campo sneaker, is an impressive proof of that.<\/p>\n<p>After working relentlessly for the past five years, Veja finally introduced these &#8216;vegan&#8217; sneakers that are\u00a0made of waxed canvas and are fully biodegradable.<\/p>\n<p>In the words of Fast Company :\u00a0&#8220;The sneaker is made from canvas that has been waxed with a compound made from corn waste. The entire shoe is made from clean, bio-based materials, but it does look remarkably like leather. The point of this exercise was not just to create a cool, leather-like shoe, but to prove that, with a little effort, it is possible for brands to stay on top of trends without contributing to the fashion industry\u2019s pollution.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Read more here:\u00a0<a href=\"_wp_link_placeholder\">https:\/\/www.treehugger.com\/sustainable-fashion\/vejas-new-vegan-sneaker-plant-based-and-biodegradable.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ever since Veja, a French shoe brand, was founded fourteen years ago, it has been trying to make shoe production more ethical and environment-friendly. And the company&#8217;s latest offering,\u00a0the Campo sneaker, is an impressive proof of that. After working relentlessly for the past five years, Veja finally introduced these &#8216;vegan&#8217; sneakers that are\u00a0made of waxed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":57840,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[85],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57839\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}