{"id":57921,"date":"2019-03-07T07:03:40","date_gmt":"2019-03-07T07:03:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.i-believe.org\/?p=57921"},"modified":"2019-03-07T07:03:40","modified_gmt":"2019-03-07T07:03:40","slug":"these-are-perhaps-the-most-sustainable-shoes-on-planet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/2019\/03\/07\/these-are-perhaps-the-most-sustainable-shoes-on-planet\/","title":{"rendered":"These are perhaps the most sustainable shoes on planet"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Did you know that more than 20 billion pairs of shoes are manufactured annually? And that almost all of them contain some form of plastic and are non-biodegradable. This means that all of these will eventually end up in our landfills and will continue to pollute the planet for hundreds of years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now it is not that making high quality, eco-friendly shoes from recyclable materials is entirely impossible. A few companies have already launched pretty good sustainable footwear and the latest company to follow suit is United by Blue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The American ethical apparel company\u00a0has partnered with Canadian shoemaker\u00a0SOLE\u00a0to create a shoe that is sustainable &#8220;from tongue to tread.&#8221; Called the Jasper Wool Eco Chukka, it&#8217;s a casual gender-neutral shoe that boasts an impressive list of eco materials and is completely biodegradable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more here: <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"https:\/\/www.treehugger.com\/sustainable-fashion\/jasper-wool-eco-chukka-proves-shoes-can-be-designed-sustainably.html (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.treehugger.com\/sustainable-fashion\/jasper-wool-eco-chukka-proves-shoes-can-be-designed-sustainably.html\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.treehugger.com\/sustainable-fashion\/jasper-wool-eco-chukka-proves-shoes-can-be-designed-sustainably.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Did you know that more than 20 billion pairs of shoes are manufactured annually? And that almost all of them contain some form of plastic and are non-biodegradable. This means that all of these will eventually end up in our landfills and will continue to pollute the planet for hundreds of years. Now it is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":57922,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[85],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57921","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\/57921","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=57921"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57921\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}