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World Changing Ideas

How this New Bamboo Sneaker is Changing the Shoe Industry One Tiny Carbon Footprint at a Time

May 5, 2021
28:15

We know greenhouse gas emissions come from transportation and food waste. But one carbon contributor that doesn’t always get a lot of airtime is the retail industry. Fashion accounts for nearly 10 percent of carbon emissions and 85 percent of discarded clothes end up in landfills. That becomes nearly 12 million tons every year.

Talib talks with Cariuma co-founders David Python and Fernando Porto about making the world's first sneaker with the smallest carbon footprint.

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