Closing the loop on Fabric & Shoes | Ep. #62

<p>https://spinnovagroup.com/Shoes have a large environmental impact; every year we produce 21 billion pair of shoes worldwide and 95% of those ends up in the landfill. Such massive production of shoes is linked with high CO2 emissions, enormous water consumption and the use of highly toxic products. A vast shift towards sustainability is a must. Yet, most fashion houses tend to focus on formal developments, rather than on process and material innovation, giving sustainable solutions the cold shoulder.</p> <p>While fast fashion has glamorously taken all the negative publicity around sustainability, the new age shoe industry’s havoc rarely gets mentioned.</p> <p>Is it really possible to design zero waste fashion products..well it is possible nahi toh hum yeh episode shayad record nahi karte hai na :D</p> <p><a href="https://www.circulareconomyclub.com/listings/a-zero-waste-shoe/" target="_blank">Kristel Peters</a> has laid down the following 3 steps for zero waste design,</p> <p>1. The design of the shoe should be modular and ready made for disassembly and reduce the components of a shoe vastly.</p> <p>2. The materialisation of the shoe must be zero waste.</p> <p>3. The shoe is to be looked at as a service, not as a product.</p> <p>Beautiful isn’t it?</p> <p>Leather and different variants of leather form an important part of the shoe industry and I believe each one of us are aware of the environmental &amp; sustainability harms that the leather industry brings in..yet because shoes are a basic necessity ..its flaws rarely get the spotlight. But we are here to discuss solution.</p> <p>A fabulous solution brought in by textile innovators <a href="https://spinnovagroup.com/" target="_blank">Spinnova</a>.</p> <p><a href="https://spinnovagroup.com/" target="_blank">Spinnova</a> are a Finland based company who are transforming the way textiles are made globally.</p> <p><a href="https://spinnova.com/about/" target="_blank">It all started in 2009 at Technical Research Centre of Finland’s (VTT) cellulose expert Juha Salmel