{"id":2975,"date":"2019-09-23T11:46:13","date_gmt":"2019-09-23T11:46:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/?p=2975"},"modified":"2019-09-23T11:46:15","modified_gmt":"2019-09-23T11:46:15","slug":"shoes-made-completely-of-recycled-trash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/index.php\/2019\/09\/23\/shoes-made-completely-of-recycled-trash\/","title":{"rendered":"Shoes Made Completely of Recycled Trash"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-link is-provider-grist\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/grist.org\/living\/these-shoes-are-completely-made-out-of-recycled-trash\/\">These shoes are completely made out of recycled trash<\/a>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/everythingisrubbish.co.uk\/\">Everything Is Rubbish<\/a> is a recycling art project by a trio of British guys.\nCharles Duffy,&nbsp;William Gubbins, and&nbsp;Billy Turvey wanted to make a\nstatement about the&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.plasticoceanproject.org\/learn-more.html\">millions of pieces of plastic<\/a>&nbsp;that end up\nin the ocean every day. They gathered plastic trash on U.K. beaches,\ndisinfected the crap out of it, heated it up, smashed it into sheets, and\ncreated shoes out of it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The first of our clothing\nto show signs of damage is footwear. In the eyes of the consumer, a superficial\nblemish or a shift in the latest trend is all that\u2019s needed to warrant a new\npurchase.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Contemporary footwear\nspends barely a fraction of its life hugging a foot. For the majority of its\nlife it is rubbish. Whether in a landfill or washed up on a shoreline, the\nsynthetics within the shoes \u2014 in addition to the plethora of plastic we discard\n\u2014 will take centuries to break down.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Analysis: This artwork brings creativity into the shoe\nindustry. It shows how materials can be made from anything, even recycled\nmaterials that were considered trash. <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Everything Is Rubbish is a recycling art project by a trio of British guys. Charles Duffy,&nbsp;William Gubbins, and&nbsp;Billy Turvey wanted to make a statement about the&nbsp;millions of pieces of plastic&nbsp;that end up in the ocean every day. They gathered plastic trash on U.K. beaches, disinfected the crap out of it, heated it up, smashed it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":2976,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2975","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2975","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=2975"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2975\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2977,"href":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2975\/revisions\/2977"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}