Customised Corksole Abrasion-proof sole In Germany, around 70 grams of microplastics are released per capita each year through the abrasion of shoe soles (Bertling et al., 2018; UBA, 2020). For this reason, this shoe sole is made of cork. Cork can only be recycled from a certain grain size – for anything too fine, thermal …
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Projects of Prof. Mareike Gast at Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design