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Adidas reports 80% reduction in VOCs

23/11/2011

Sports brand adidas has issued figures for volatile organic compounds (VOCs) in its athletic shoes. In 1999, the company’s athletic shoes contained, on average, 140 grammes of VOCs per pair, mostly as a result of the adhesives used in their construction. Adidas launched an initiaitive specifically to reduce this figure in 2000 and by 2010 the VOC ...

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