Scientists Build Biodegradable Shoes That Sea Creatures Can Eat

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Scientists Build Biodegradable Shoes That Sea Creatures Can Eat

Sep 23, 2022

Scientists have developed shoes that biodegrade in seawater enough for sea creatures to eat them. They say that the replacement for plastic could tackle pollution plaguing the world's oceans by degrading enough to become consumed by sea life.

Footwear is an important focus point—shoes make up a huge percentage of plastic waste in the world's waters and landfills, and plastic-based flip-flops are the world's most popular shoe.

Currently, plastic polluting our seas never degrade and instead breaks up into smaller particles until they become microplastics that live on for centuries.

https://www.newsweek.com/scientists-...an-eat-1745751

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