Taiwan Industrial Technology Research Institute launched an innovative polyester elastomer material to make sports shoes 100% recyclable

Globally, 4 billion pairs of sports shoes are sold annually, generating 1.5 million tons of shoe waste, over 70% of which cannot be recycled. Taiwan Industrial Technology Research Institute developed the world’s first “full-cycle single polyester material low-carbon shoes” technology, using the innovative polyester elastomer material “rTPEE-G”, combined with the integrated injection molding of the…