Hong Kong
CNN Business
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Some are leather-free. Others use recycled plastic bottles. Many have soles made from wild Amazonian rubber.
Could Veja sneakers be the most sustainable shoes in the world?
The French fashion brand’s founders, Sébastien Kopp and François-Ghislain Morillion, certainly hope so.
The two childhood friends visited clothing and food factories in South America, Asia and Australia while running a nonprofit group — and were appalled by what they saw.
“We realized that we did not know how products were made, and that if we knew, we would consume differently,