{"id":2930,"date":"2019-09-23T11:21:13","date_gmt":"2019-09-23T11:21:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/?p=2930"},"modified":"2019-09-23T11:21:14","modified_gmt":"2019-09-23T11:21:14","slug":"sneakers-made-from-recycled-chewing-gum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/index.php\/2019\/09\/23\/sneakers-made-from-recycled-chewing-gum\/","title":{"rendered":"Sneakers Made from Recycled Chewing Gum"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2018\/4\/24\/17274414\/sneakers-chewing-gum-tec-amsterdam-gum-drop-explicit-wear\">https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2018\/4\/24\/17274414\/sneakers-chewing-gum-tec-amsterdam-gum-drop-explicit-wear<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Chewing gum is somewhat of a universal\npastime, but the consequence is often the amount of gum left on streets when\npeople spit it out. To reduce waste and litter, city marketing organization Amsterdam,\ndesigner Explicit Wear, and sustainability company Gumdrop have collaborated to\ndesign a shoe from the recycled gum.&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gumshoe.amsterdam\/\">Called Gumshoe<\/a>, the shoe\u2019s sole is made of recyclable\ncompounds (<a href=\"http:\/\/gumdropltd.com\/gumtec\/\">known as Gum-Tec<\/a>) produced by Gumdrop, and\nthose compounds are made up of 20 percent gum.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe discovered gum is made from a synthetic\nrubber. And by breaking down these properties, we were able to create a new\ntype of rubber,\u201d&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=f155BH2MErE\">says Anna Bullus<\/a>, managing\ndirector and designer at Gumdrop. According to the project, roughly 3.3 million\npounds of gum make it onto Amsterdam pavements each year, and that costs the\ncity millions of dollars to clean up. The project uses around 2.2 pounds (1 kg)\nof gum for every four pairs of shoes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The recycled gum that was used was scraped\nfrom the streets in Amsterdam. The Gum-Tec compounds are formed as granules and\nare then molded into the sole of the shoe, which also features a map of the\ncity. \u201cWe started looking for a way to make people aware of this problem [&#8230;]\nThat\u2019s when the idea began to create a product people actually want from\nsomething no one cares about,\u201d a spokesperson for the collaboration, Jonathan\nVan Loon, said in an email to&nbsp;<em>The Verge.&nbsp;<\/em>Van Loon says the compounds are\nas strong as normal rubber and even smell of gum \u2014 minus all the stickiness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Analysis: This article shows how shoes can be made up of\na lot of different things, including old, used chewing gum. This inspires\nsustainability in our world as it shows that even a disgusting piece of used\ngum that we find everywhere can be transformed into a useful item. <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2018\/4\/24\/17274414\/sneakers-chewing-gum-tec-amsterdam-gum-drop-explicit-wear Chewing gum is somewhat of a universal pastime, but the consequence is often the amount of gum left on streets when people spit it out. To reduce waste and litter, city marketing organization Amsterdam, designer Explicit Wear, and sustainability company Gumdrop have collaborated to design a shoe from the recycled gum.&nbsp;Called Gumshoe, the shoe\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":2931,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2930","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-science-tech"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2930","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2930"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2930\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2932,"href":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2930\/revisions\/2932"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}