When I was in Kenya in 2009, a friend brought me and my family to an inspirational workshop outside of Nairobi that just goes to show that eco fashion is a cottage industry even in the Third World. The founders of Ocean Sole were troubled by the thousands of plastic flip flops that wash up on the African coast each year and decided to tackle the problem with an innovative solution. Local communities collect the discarded shoes and bring them to a center where they are cleaned and transformed int...
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