From trainers available only via subscription to kicks made out of coconut husk, designing a shoe that won’t end up in landfill is proving to be a marathon
, have begun collecting old sneakers, shredding them and turning them into basketball courts, children’s play mats and other types of flooring, the holy grail of circularity is keeping materials at their highest value. In other words, designing sneakers that can be recycled back into sneakers.
French outdoor-wear brand Salomon approached the puzzle slightly differently by simplifying the number of materials in their recyclable shoes. In May 2021, they released a sneaker called the Index.01 made of two main materials, a polyester upper and a thermoplastic polyurethane sole. When the shoes are returned to Salomon, they are split using scissors.
“There are so many pieces we had to look at,” says Ilmarin Heitz, the company’s head of innovation. “The Cloudneo is the first product where we do this successfully.”
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