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Biodegradable Sneakers Sprout Flowers When Planted
Zothecula writes "People may joke about their dirty old sneakers turning into science projects or mini ecosystems, but once OAT Shoes' compostable sneakers become commercially available within the next several weeks ... let's just say, those same people may no longer be joking when they make those kind of statements. Made using hemp, cork, bio-cotton, certified biodegradable plastics, chlorine-free bleach and other nontoxic materials, the shoes are designed to completely break down when buried in the ground – the first batch will even come with seeds in their tongues, so that wildflowers will sprout up in commemoration of users' planted, expired kicks."
Fungi fun guy paul stamets has invented and sells a cardboard box then when planted first grows a crop of mushrooms, then old growth forest trees.
http://www.lifeboxcompany.com/
Hemp grown for fiber does not contain enough THC to get a fly high.
Someone wanna explain that to the Government, or are we just going to continue to deforest ourselves right out of existence because lawmakers are too fucking stupid to know the difference between hemp and weed?
Damn, I hate it when my sig speaks so loudly...
Packaged with seeds in the tongue doesn't sound too promising either.
People wash sneakers. (Well, ok, Moms wash sneakers). And it rains.
I'm not sure walking around with feet looking like a Chia Pet is going to be that big of a fashion statement.
Still there is a wide variety of what people consider biodegradable. Rock is biodegradable. Years ago
several grocery chains came out with biodegradable plastic bags which they claimed would be degraded by sunlight.
Stapled to the side of my house, they showed not the slightest sign of weathering or degrading for
5 years till my wife made me take them down.
Out of sight out of mind. But how long in the ground?
Sig Battery depleted. Reverting to safe mode.
Those are all completely false allegations. First of all, anything large you can avoid stepping on, and anything small doesn't penetrate the skin. Worms need an opening to get through, and in primitive peoples entered most often from the food people ate, not from the surface of the skin.
Also, shoes increase the likelihood of getting an injury infected. Shoes are, like I said, warm, dark, and dank. Perfect for bacteria to grow and multiply. Wearing shoes keeps the injuring material in the foot, and the hazard carries bacteria from the shoe into the wound.
Also, the furthest back record of shoes is 10,000 years ago, and in those cases all that was found was simple, flexible leather soles. The first record of closed toed shoes was only 3,000 years ago, and the first record of rigid soled shoes was purely high fashion around the past few hundred years, but barefooting has been standard behavior for almost everyone in society everywhere in the world except China and parts of the Arab world for all but the past 40 years.
It appears you are not only clueless, but deluded, moronic, and prone to make snap judgements when you have no information pertaining to the subject at hand. It is people like you that have allowed sick bastards to work their way into our legal system for the express purpose of making the rich richer at the expense of everybody else in society, while hurting business, markets, consumers, the environment, and long term economic and political stability. You should be ashamed.
Also, I have a pair of Vibram 5 fingers only because footwear is required in my chemistry labs, and for a research project I did last semester that involved studying an urban stream full of rusted metal, glass, and crap like that that was obstructed from view by murky water and mud. For everyday walking, I much prefer to keep my feet out in the open air, showing off my wonderfully well kept feet and bold colors of nail polish. Not in those disgusting foot coffins thank you.
Where is the mod rating for "scary"? Also,