mathijsstroober

dedicated

19/08/2017 at 12:20

@chewey,
Hard to say. Soles are mostly from rubber or foam. Most foams are resins and not possible to recycle with Precious Plastic machines.

PE is the most flexible for something like a sole. But will we pretty slippery and sweaty.
Some kind of sandals are maybe possible of you fuse bags together.
plastic bags

carlf

helper

19/08/2017 at 15:21

you can use old tire tread to make new shoes. i heard of it, that people are doing this in africa. but instead of recycling they do upcycling, which is more ecofriendly:)

greetings
carl

chewey

starter

20/08/2017 at 13:36

Okay….i understand.
But that is not what we are seraching for.
What do you think about “Netherland-Shoe´s” ?
In Holland any people mades shoes from wood.
We can made them with HDPE….or not ?

petrowitch89

helper

21/08/2017 at 08:14

Klomps are wery heavy and they should use thick woll socks with it to waer. Dutch people use it only for decoration or for festivals at nowtimes.
Main problem of your idea is that all plastics do not allow skin to breath. that mean that better to use it only for soles.

mathijsstroober

dedicated

21/08/2017 at 10:23

I where them sometimes without festivals. Of course you can make shoes totally from PE, but it will not be breathable at all. Also I doubt the comfortability

petrowitch89

helper

22/08/2017 at 08:11

Sry i don’t want to offend anyone! Clomps are great invention and could be use even now because of them durability.
Just wanted to say that as every national costums it is not cheap and not regular wear.

gujonon

helper

29/08/2017 at 17:40

Hey there @chewey!

I think @mathijsstroober is right about use of rubber, as it’s more flexible and thus comfortable. But maybe you can get flexibility combining plastic with other materials, so plastic provides hardness and the other flexibility.

An example would be spanish “alpargatas”. You can see what I’m talking about on the pictures below.