Phoenix Suns’ guard Steve Nash has teamed up with Nike to create the first eco-friendly performance basketball shoe made from manufacturing waste off the company’s factory floor. The upper sole is comprised of leather and synthetic waste, the mid sole of scrap-ground foam left over in factory production, and the out sole incorporates environmentally-preferred Nike Grind materials from footwear manufacturing scraps.

Since 1993, Nike’s “reuse a shoe” recycling program, Nike Grind, has been taking athletic shoes of all brands and turning them into recyclable materials. and see how their approach to sustainable footwear is continuing to evolve.