Gumshoe is the world's first pair of shoes made with 100% recycled chewing gum. The soles of these shoes are made from recycled chewing gum from the streets of Amsterdam. In the Netherlands 1.5 million kilos of gum ends up on the street every year. By buying these shoes you contribute to the solution, by wearing them you show your support.
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The project is so cool! Thumbs up guys! But is it commercially viable or should be subsidized? I mean what about the cost vs revenue? According to the video it seems to have been a big effort to collect gum from all around Amsterdam. I wonder what is the approximate cost of one shoe, can it be reduced if mass produced, what is the vision about future project scaling?
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@julia_k At 200 usd per pair, clearly there's a certain cost to all this, which they must have onboarded and passing on to the customer. Hopefully we'll see economies of scale in the future.
Wow, this is extremely innovative. After traveling in Amsterdam and seeing the gum litter problem I always wondered if there was a way to take another approach to solving the problem. Great work to this team!
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Incredible concept, nice design... but... 200 euro's for something people have chewed and spat out? That is ridiculous.
What a great concept... would be good to know more about how gum is used in the manufacturing process.
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Any product/services benefitting the environment, should be widely supported and celebrated, kudos to you for this innovative product 👏👏👏
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First of all, that auto play video on the marketing site...wtf people.
That said, I fully support any product that is pun-based.
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Would like to know how much of the shoe is made from 100% recycled material, if any of it. The website says 'made from 100%... etc' but the sales site says 'Made from premium matt leather [...] The outsole of this product is made of RECYCLED CHEWING GUM in collab with GUM-TEC". A tad misleading, even though the intention is good.
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