material science company Balena, which has operations in Tel Aviv and Milan, has produced cinnamon-scented slides made of wholly biodegradable elastomer.
Balena's "game-changing, totally compostable and biodegradable material," which seeks to provide strong, flexible, and sustainable alternatives to plastics in fashion, is used to make the shoes.
Balena's BioCir is the first totally moldable, biodegradable elastomer created as a substitute for plastic in the fashion industry. The patented material is smooth, resilient, flexible, and soft and contains up to 60% bio-based content. It is also 100% biodegradable.
According to Balena, the material's nature makes it the "ideal substitute for the present polluting shoe materials," since it enables businesses tofootwear made with BioCir technology is completely biodegradable.
Balena has made its debut by introducing BioCycling, a fully circular method that makes it easier to dispose of and completely biodegrade its BioCir slides in a composting environment. Instead of disposing of the slides in a landfill after use, customers may return them to designated drop-off locations spread out around the city, where they will be collected and fully biodegraded at a nearby industrial compost plant. Balena notes that this repetition model is reproducible everywhere.
The founder and CEO of Balena, David Roubach, declared in a statement that the fashion sector is one of the worst pollutants in the world. Balena's mission is to assist with this turnaround. By developing our own practical biodegradable plastic substitutes and fully circular systems that can be readily scaled up and copied and pasted throughout the world.