Converse Announce Plan to Reduce, Reuse and… Renew?

Whether you lace up in an impish US5 or channel in beastly US23s, your carbon footprint is sizable. This is because you’re likely a member of a curious group of people known as ‘sneakerheads’, who pride themselves in obtaining footwear that adds to the bulging 8.3 billion tons of plastic ever made. But you don’t need to renounce sneakers for doomsday prepping yet. have just announced a new way for you to help Captain Planet: reduce, reuse, and Renew. Renew is a new eco-friendly offering with a host of beneficial traits — a large one is the ability to take PET (the culprit in most plastic bottles) and turn it into sneakers.