猜猜膠底運動鞋是什么做的

猜猜膠底運動鞋是什么做的

In the natural environment, it takes gum between 20 to 25 years to biodegrade. Surprised? So was I. (And for the same reason, don't swallow your gum.)

在自然環(huán)境中，口香糖需要20到25年才能被生物降解。驚訝嗎?我也是(出于同樣的原因，不要吞下你的口香糖)。

Gum is made from a synthetic rubber, so it makes that it can be broken down to create rubber soles for sneakers. (Photo: Snapshot from YouTube)

But whether people know how long it persists or not, a lot of it still ends up on city streets — not to mention the underside of subway seats. But the city of Amsterdam is turning the scourge of used gum to its advantage: They're collecting the stuff that sticks to your soles to create more soles for shoes, in a wonderful example of sustainable design thinking.

但不管人們是否知道它能持續(xù)多久，很多垃圾還是會出現(xiàn)在城市的街道上，更不用說地鐵座位的底部了。不過，阿姆斯特丹市正在把用過的口香糖變成它的優(yōu)勢:他們正在收集粘在鞋底上的東西來制造更多的鞋底，這是可持續(xù)設計思想的一個絕佳例子。

Special teams work throughout the city of Amsterdam to pick up gum from the streets. It turns out that gum is the second most common litter after cigarette butts in the capital city of The Netherlands. After being collected, the gum is processed into the soles of the new sneakers.

專門的團隊在整個阿姆斯特丹市內工作，從街上撿口香糖。結果發(fā)現(xiàn)，在荷蘭首都，口香糖是僅次于煙頭的第二常見垃圾。收集后，口香糖被加工成新運動鞋的鞋底。

"We discovered that gum was made from synthetic rubber, and by breaking down these properties, we were able to create a new type of rubber," said Anna Bullus, the designer of the sneakers.

“我們發(fā)現(xiàn)口香糖是由合成橡膠制成的，通過分解這些特性，我們能夠創(chuàng)造出一種新型橡膠，”這款運動鞋的設計師安娜·布爾斯說。

About 2.2 pounds of gum are needed for every four pairs of sneakers. With 3.3 million pounds of gum deposited on city streets each year, there's plenty to work with.

每四雙運動鞋大約需要2.2磅的口香糖。每年有330萬磅口香糖堆積在城市街道上，有很多地方需要處理。

The goal is part creative recycling project, and the tagline for the shoe ("for the sole purpose of clean streets") reveals the second aim: a public-awareness campaign about littering. It's a subtle, high-design way of getting people to pitch their used chew in the trash.

這個目標是創(chuàng)意回收項目的一部分，而這雙鞋的標語(“清潔街道的唯一目的”)揭示了第二個目標:一場關于亂丟垃圾的公眾意識運動。這是一個微妙的，高設計的方式，讓人們把他們用過的咀嚼垃圾扔進垃圾桶。

Available in bubblegum pink (naturally) as well as black, the sneakers pair leather uppers with the gummy soles. They'll be available in June for about $230, which is a small price to pay for shoes that you can step on gum with — and do your part to clean the streets.

泡泡糖粉紅色(自然)以及黑色的運動鞋對皮革鞋面與膠粘的鞋底已經生產出來了。這款鞋將于今年6月上市，售價約為230美元，與你用來踩口香糖的鞋相比，這個價格實在是太低了，而且你還得盡自己的一份力來清掃街道。