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Rik Olthuis’ Compostable Sneakers wins Dyson Award

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Last updated: June 26, 2024 10:04 pm
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A younger Whakatāne guy who usually dreamed of designing footwear has had step one of his sustainable dream come proper way to a prestigious Dyson award.

Rik Olthuis, 22, has landed a James Dyson award for his compostable sneaker layout and is about to pursue his dream launching his Voronoi runners to a much broader marketplace.

He delivered herbal substances to enhance the energy, water resistance and compression shoes needs. Fully handmade, every shoe took approximately an afternoon to 3D print.

The footwear are named after the mathematical equation used to make the sample on the only and midsole of the shoe, referred to as a Voronoi shape. 

Olthuis 3D published this shape from a biodegradable filament, at the same time as the shoe’s higher, is crafted from merino wool with 3D published details.

“We should lay out some things we desired and I desired to layout a beneficial shoe for the ultra-modern marketplace. I became additionally privy to the the frenzy for sustainability withinside the industry,” he tells the Herald.

The range of pairs of footwear produced globally has long gone from seven billion to 23 billion seeing that 1950. What was one pair in line with character is now three.

According to ClimateWorks Foundation, maximum footwear turn out to be withinside the landfill and take greater than 50 years to completely decompose.

But the Voronoi runners can without difficulty be deconstructed, as each fabric and aspect may be composted on the quit of its existence.

“It’s a walking shoe however the line is blurred among athletic and casual,” Olthuis explains. “I desired it to be comfortable, sporty, and nevertheless casual.”

To make the footwear, he advanced a gelatine and glycerine-primarily based totally biodegradable foam to update the standard blown polyurethane.

 

The award is a worldwide opposition for destiny layout engineers, run through the Dyson Foundation.

 

“Allbirds has tested that there’s a developing marketplace for sustainability centered product innovation so this will be an appropriate time for this product,” she stated.

As the countrywide winner, Olthuis will get hold of NZ$3500 to head closer to supporting the check the shape and energy of a biodegradable filament.

He and the alternative New Zealand finalists will flow directly to the worldwide degree of the opposition, in which a pinnacle 20 can be picked through a panel of Dyson engineers and introduced on October 15.

British inventor Sir James Dyson will pick out the worldwide winner and sustainability winner.

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