Products made from recycled materials are a good idea. It's more environmentally friendly, it reuses potentially valuable material that would otherwise be trashed, and it saves us the trouble of creating entirely new material - which can cost more time, energy, and resources. It's often surprising to discover just what products can be created from what would otherwise be seen as trash. What would usually be garbage is turned into something ingenious. Adidas and their new shoes might be the most surprising recycled product yet though, creating sport shoes out of repurposed fishing nets and discarded plastics.

Adidas have partnered with an environmentalist organisation; Parley For the Ocean, to create a sneaker made from discarded fishing nets and plastic waste taken from the ocean. While the pictured shoe is just a concept piece, Adidas have said that they intend to use recycled ocean plastics in their shoes by 2016. And for good cause as well. Pollution is a significant problem for the ocean, especially towards marine life, but those fishing nets aren't just abandoned trash. Some of these nets were actually confiscated from arrested illegal poachers. Quite an interesting way to recycle actually.

Originally seen on http://www.boredpanda.com/recycled-fish-net-ocean-trash-sneakers-adidas/