Luke Haverhals

The world's first regenerative sneakers — Degenerate — made with 100% plants and minerals and zero plastic, will decompose at end of life to birth something entirely new. The product comes from regenerative fashion company Unless Collective and plant based material innovation company Natural Fiber Welding.

Natural Fiber Welding— the name says much about NFW’s vision for a world that will be material-rich and plastic-free. The people behind it claim to be “obsessed with leaving the world better than we found it” and so they are on a mission to invent and “manufacture shockingly sustainable materials” from plants. The CEO & Founder of NFW Luke Haverhals tells texfash.com how he is leading his company “a moonshot systems-level shift away” from petroleum-derived products and toxic chemistries.