Yanko Design (The DREADCO of the design world) does it again with the OneMoment shoe. It may look, feel, and probably smell like a cheap pair of reef runners, but it has the added virtue of being made out of (all together now!) biodegradable plastic.
Yes, when you dig out you OneMoment shoes next spring, they won't just smell rotten, they'll be rotten.
5 comments:
this obsession with built in obscelescence is a curious feature of the modern "environmentalist".
To really confuse them, point out that when these "green" polymers biodegrade, they release the carbon locked up on their molecules as either carbon dioxide or, worse, methane!
Watching them trying to rationalise they're preference for products that actively increase atmospheric CO2 rather than acting as a carbon sequestration scheme that actually has a useful purpose is quite entertaining
David;
A real "environmentalist" (i.e., one with actual working brain cells capable of logical reasoning) would be advocating that consumer goods be made as durable as possible, to reduce the rate at which they need to be replaced. They would also be on the side of using as many rapidly-replaceable and/or abundant resources in their production as possible (think; fast-growth wood products, plastics from oil shales, etc.) to reduce the impact of production on "strategic resources"- like food supplies.
These are the basic principles of production as they existed in the post- WWII era, when we had gone through a period of learning the hard way what production under limited resources meant (while being shot at, to boot). We learned to make quinine to fight malaria from coal tars because the natural sources were occupied by the Axis, as just one example. (Thereby finishing a project begun in Britain in the 1840s, and abandoned in favor of dye-making.)
The fact that "ecos" seem incapable of grasping this tells me they are either (a) exceptionally stupid, (b) willfully ignorant of basic science, (c) determined to do as much damage to our food supply as possible to reduce our population by Malthusian means, or (d) two or more of the above.
None of which makes me any more likely to support them.
cheers
eon
What, galoshes?
I suppose the whole "it rots in the ground---and above it!" thing is an acknowledgment of fashion: you require new and different shoes every season, and the old pair continues to exist. Not sure how much need Goodwill has for worn-out loafers. Not that these hideous things are the answer. To anything. Other than, maybe: "design challenge: make something more hideous than Crocs sandals".
I recall DREADCO from the back page of "New Scientist," well at least if my memory is working correctly I do, it does seem that truth is more impractical than fiction.
I'd say that if anything, shoes do need to last longer. They also need to be made materials that don't rot (bang goes any longetivity), but from materials that can be easily recycled or replaced.
So, yeah, basically what eon said.
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