If you buy these shoes, you are helping clean up a poisoned Chinese lake. The shoes are made from algae that started polluting the lake a decade ago depriving two million people of safe drinking water. Now the algae is harvested from the lake and turned into a flexible, rubbery material that is used to make shoes. To get enough algae to make one pair means cleaning 57 gallons of water, which are then returned to the lake.
Made from polluting algae: These shoes clean lakes
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