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For decades, pollutants have ravaged our oceans, affecting its fragile environment and the animals living in it. Some of the most dangerous pollutants include radioactive waste and oil, especially during accidental oil spills from tankers or leaks from oil rigs. Still, they are a far cry from the most common pollutant now plaguing our oceans: plastic or to be more specific, microplastics.As for recycling plastics,adidas zx flux and Parley for the Oceans (simply known as Parley) have teamed up to recycle ocean plastics to create something unique: a pair of shoes. Not only that, but people have a chance to win one of 50 pairs of these eco-friendly shoes too.

To understand the scope of the threat microplastics have on oceans’ ecosystem, they are one of the biggest threats to the fish population because fish prefer to eat them over natural food. As a matter of fact, about one quarter of all fish in the ocean now contain plastics, adidas zx flux dames according to the United Nations. With these frightening facts, it can be hypothesized that a quarter of all fish consumed by people possibly contains plastic too. Let’s not forget this is just fish and there are other animals, not just living in the oceans but on land and air, that are affected by plastics that may consume them as well.

Many in the green community are trying to find ways to reduce, reuse, and recycle the millions of tons of plastics that are polluting our oceans. In India, a company replaced plastic cutlery with those made by millet which in turn makes them edible too. When it comes to reusing plastics, they are now being incorporated into concrete to help reinforce it.As shown from the video above, adidas originals zx flux and Parley have found a way to turn ocean plastics into technical yarn. According to Ecouterre, the new shoes, called the “Adidas X Parley running shoes,” has uppers made of plastics that consist of roughly 16.5 post-consumer plastic bottles along with about 13 grams of gill-net plastic