These ocean trash shoes aren’t even ugly!

Yeah, we were surprised, too.

They are knitted from enormous plastic gill nets left drifting at the bottom of the ocean … and they aren’t completely hideous! See? Not bad for a trash shoe, Adidas — not bad at all.

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