Don't say ugh to UGGs: Iconic fluffy boots now contain plant-based materials : Biofuels Digest
Dubbed Plant Power, the collection includes three styles. The Fluff Sugar Platform and Fluff Sugar Sandal shoes maintain Ugg’s fluffy interior using TENCEL Lyocell, a material produced by Austria’s Lenzing from sustainably harvested trees. The soles are made of a material produced using sugarcane as raw material. The Chukka boots are also lined with TENCEL but with soles made of LACTAE HEVEA, a renewable latex obtained from the Hevea tree. “Our design team took inspiration from our iconic styles and created new silhouettes with carbon-neutral, plant-based materials,” Andrea O’Donn...