6) Native Shoes
What happens to your shoes when they've taken their last step? Most shoes are
made of harmful synthetic materials that cannot be recycled and every year 300
million pairs of shoes end up in landfills.
Native Shoes is changing the
game of footwear using unique
manufacturing techniques and vegan
materials to lighten their carbon
footprint on the world. They also
reduce waste by collecting old pairs
of Native Shoes to give them new
life as playground flooring and
insulation. Most notable is their
groundbreaking, limited edition Plant
Shoe, the first 100% biodegradable
shoe made of all natural materials
and can be composted after use.
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7) Numi Tea
Numi Tea has sustainability in their DNA. Their
mission is to unite mind, body and spirit through tea,
and they extend that holistic idea to helping protect
our planet.
Everything Numi Tea does ties back to their mission:
from sustainable packaging to making donations
to environmental nonprofits to tracking carbon
emissions during the production process. They make
sure every step in sourcing, making and selling their
tea is environmentally sound.
Numi Tea is also the brainpower behind OSC2 (One
Step Closer to an Organic Sustainable Community),
a group of CEOs and business leaders from the
sustainably-focused, natural products industry that
are dedicated to improving sustainability across all
industries. They're dedicated to improving not only their
own practices, but business practices across the board.
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