{"id":587,"date":"2017-05-06T21:33:08","date_gmt":"2017-05-07T01:33:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/semba\/?p=587"},"modified":"2017-05-06T21:33:08","modified_gmt":"2017-05-07T01:33:08","slug":"from-the-web-timberland-transforms-recycled-plastic-bottles-into-shoes-bags","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/2017\/05\/06\/from-the-web-timberland-transforms-recycled-plastic-bottles-into-shoes-bags\/","title":{"rendered":"From the Web: Timberland transforms recycled plastic bottles into shoes, bags"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-588\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/semba\/files\/2017\/05\/Screen-Shot-2017-05-06-at-6.15.37-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1426\" height=\"998\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/files\/2017\/05\/Screen-Shot-2017-05-06-at-6.15.37-PM.png 1426w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/files\/2017\/05\/Screen-Shot-2017-05-06-at-6.15.37-PM-300x210.png 300w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/files\/2017\/05\/Screen-Shot-2017-05-06-at-6.15.37-PM-768x537.png 768w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/files\/2017\/05\/Screen-Shot-2017-05-06-at-6.15.37-PM-1024x717.png 1024w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/files\/2017\/05\/Screen-Shot-2017-05-06-at-6.15.37-PM-429x300.png 429w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/>For its latest collection, <strong>Timberland<\/strong> is turning to the bottle\u2014the plastic bottle, that is. The outdoor-wear maker has teamed up with <strong>Thread<\/strong>, a Pittsburgh, Penn.-based manufacturer of sustainable fabrics, to transform plastic bottles from the streets and canals of <strong>Haiti<\/strong> into a dapper collection of footwear, bags, and T-shirts. Not only does the partnership turn an ecological blight into a resource but it also creates social value in the form of cleaner neighborhoods and job opportunities for one of the planet\u2019s poorest nations.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/inhabitat.com\/timberland-transforms-recycled-plastic-bottles-into-shoes-bags\/\">Learn more<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><em>(via inhabitat)<\/em> &gt;&gt;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For its latest collection, Timberland is turning to the bottle\u2014the plastic bottle, that is. The outdoor-wear maker has teamed up with Thread, a Pittsburgh, Penn.-based manufacturer of sustainable fabrics, to transform plastic bottles from the streets and canals of Haiti into a dapper collection of footwear, bags, and T-shirts. Not only does the partnership turn &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/2017\/05\/06\/from-the-web-timberland-transforms-recycled-plastic-bottles-into-shoes-bags\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;From the Web: Timberland transforms recycled plastic bottles into shoes, bags&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3919,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[221,427000,425248,425622],"tags":[41478,4433],"class_list":["post-587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-from-the-web","category-green-leap","category-renewables","tag-innovation","tag-sustainability"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8b9n0-9t","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3919"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=587"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":590,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587\/revisions\/590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}