These ocean trash shoes aren’t even ugly!
These ocean trash shoes aren’t even ugly! | Grist
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These ocean trash shoes aren’t even ugly!
By Grist staffon 30 Jun 2015commentsShare
They are knitted from enormous plastic gill nets left drifting at the bottom of the ocean … and they aren’t completely hideous! See? Not bad for a trash shoe, Adidas — not bad at all.
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