Insecta is a Brazilian company that manufactures vegan and environmentally friendly shoes. This company has developed a way to make shoe production and manufacture more sustainable, and to bring a new life into thrift store garments that are waiting for a new use.

400 billion square meters of fabric are disposed of in landfills annually. In contrast, shoe manufacturing is an expensive and resource-intensive process.

The composition of the shoes is as follows: the sole is made with recycled rubber, the local supplier that uses the leftovers from its own production prevents more material from going to waste and reduces the use of virgin raw material. The insole is all made with leftover fabrics from the production itself or from old Insectas that came back from reverse logistics, and the supplier is also local. The upper part can be made from thrift store clothing, recycled PET bottle, recycled cotton or reuse fabric.