Green Boots Arrive on the Scene

Technological advances help actualize the quest for eco-friendly lifestyle; and so does creativity. Take, for example, the fresh innovation of designer Camila Labra – a pair of green boots. Certainly, we are not talking about the color ‘green’ but the environment-friendly footwear designed by the 23 year old eco-conscious designer from Santiago (Chile). The product has nearly stunned the environmentalists and is also sending waves across the world of fashion.

Camila Labra’s green boots are made almost entirely of recycled plastic bags and have come to be named as Dacca Boots, after the city of Dhaka (capital of Bangladesh) where an abundance of plastic bags led to a ban on their use in 2002. Making a pair of Dacca Boots, as designed by Camila Labra, requires about 8 plastic shopping bags along with some cotton lining. The advantages of Dacca Boots are quite promising: useful recycling of otherwise troublesome plastic bags; saving the environment from the harmful effects of plastic waste (which is non-biodegradable); and saving other resource materials used in shoe-making; not to say of the hip look and style of these ankle boots.

The story behind the creation of Dacca Boots is no less interesting. During the final year of her graduation, at the Universidad Diego Portales (Santiago), Camila was asked to create something while using unusual materials. The abundance of plastic shopping bags all round her, in daily life, attracted her attention and she decided to use them for creating boots after observing how a number of people wore plastic shopping bags on their shoes to prevent them from getting wet. This was sufficient for sparking Camila’s creative talent and it did not take her long to create the first pair of Dacca Boots. In fact, that pair was all Miss Labra had intended to create. But people got attracted to her innovative product and started asking her about the place where they could buy such boots. Thus, Camila’s experimental project of eco-friendly boots won her a business related to the dress and fashion industry but also to the green movement.

Environment-friendly, hip, and especially useful for the rainy season and/or wet weather, Dacca Boots are available for direct ordering through Camila Labra’s blog Botas Dacca http://botasdacca.blogspot.com/ for nearly 30 pound sterling a pair. Deserving all the credit for this eco-friendly innovation, Camila Labra has added to the foundation of green wear in daily life.

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