Canadian footwear brand Native Shoes has released a unisex sneaker made entirely from vegan-friendly materials including eucalyptus, pineapple husk and dried hevea milk.
In a bid to offer consumers footwear that is both high-quality and zero-waste, Native Shoes has designed a trainer comprised of plant-derived components that are fully biodegradable, compostable and free from animal products.

According to the company, the US alone throws away at least 300 million pairs of shoes each year, and most end up in landfill. Sneakers are the worst waste culprit, made up of mostly plastic or chemically treated materials that make them impossible to break down.
Employing natural materials such as organic cotton, linen, olive oil, cork and kenaf means that the aptly named Plant Shoe is able to break down naturally over a comparatively short amount of time.
The outsole of the sneaker is made from natural latex lactae hevea ? a substance produced from the tropical hevea tree, or rubber tree. It contains no fillers or petrochemical catalysts that are typically found in other rubber materials advertised as natural.
Once the sneakers have reached the end of their life, consumers can put them in their green bins, where the materials will break down at a faster rate via aerobic or commercial composting.
This is thanks to hevea latex's ability to decompose by the naturally occurring micro-organisms that are actively replicated in a compost environment.

The shoe's midsole is made from a com...