Shoes sprout flowers when planted

[n2doc]

By John Roach
Your old sneakers may smell like something found only in fetid corners of nature, but chances are there's plenty that's not natural about them. A pair of Dutch entrepreneurs wants to change that. They've created a fully biodegradable shoe that will sprout flowers when planted at the end of their life.

OAT Shoes says their goal is to produce "sneakers that not only look good, but leave no mark on the environment when you throw them out."

The kicks are made using hemp, cork, bio-cotton, certified biodegradable plastics, chlorine-free bleach and other nontoxic materials. The first batch will come with seeds in their tongues, so that wildflowers will sprout up in commemoration of users' planted, expired kicks, according to Gizmag.

The shoes are the brainchild of entrepreneurs Christiaan Maats and Dirk-Jan Oudshoorn, who believe the future of fashion is "reconciliation between nature and industry," they write on their website.

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[kentauros]

1. That's great!

I'd love to see ecolution do the same with their products. Because I've got more than a few pairs of ecolution shoes where the hemp (or the latex sole) has worn out and now I don't know what to do with them. They can't be repaired, unless you don't care about using standard toxic repair materials. If I could have planted them instead, I'd have a fair number of extra pots on my patio now :)

[madrchsod]

2. you can use canvas or leather shoes

leather shoes, a little dirt, some perennial seeds will last for years.

[XemaSab]

3. My field socks grew weeds

:D

[wtmusic]

4. Mine would kill everything within a 5-ft radius

[kentauros]

5. No such thing as weeds

:P

http://journeytoforever.org/farm_library/weeds/WeedsToC.html

http://davesgarden.com/guides/articles/view/1530/

http://www.gardenguides.com/843-defense-weeds.html

:hi:

[xchrom]

6. want!!!!!! nt

[stuntcat]

7. want!!!!!

:headbang: