Under Armour Celebrates Earth Day with Boot Made of Sustainable Materials

Under Armour is celebrating Earth Day by unveiling a Fútbol boot made of 70% sustainable materials. They look like your typical boot that you’d see on store shelves over something made of recycled material, which is a good thing, so we would have never thought twice about the boot’s construction had we not been told otherwise.

Check below for Under Armour’s press release on the brand’s latest creation, and let us know what you think in the comment section below.

Under Armour examined each piece of the its standard boot to determine how to make it more sustainable whilst still creating an amazing fitting boot that performs at the highest levels.

To really push and prove that both top performance and sustainability goals can be achieved, Chris Wingert, a defender in Major League Soccer at Real Salt Lake, has been training in the concept boots. Photos can be found herefor reference of Wingert in the boot this past week. Head-to-toe photos available by request. Chris shared the following feedback, “The boots are great – super comfortable and I think they look really sharp. All of the guys (on the team) were making comments!”

Always pushing the limits of technology in apparel and footwear, Under Armour used both old and new techniques to create the two main components of this unique boot. Tech specifications include:

• The extremely soft upper features full grain leather made via a vegetable tanning process that has been used in one form or another over the past 200 years

• Materials were not added to create the logo, rather laser etching was used on the leather to create a futuristic look and feel

• The outsole uses a bio-based injection that is 99% renewable

• Sockliner is bio-based foam

• Laces are made from recyclable yarns

• Heel counter and forefoot board are made from a bamboo composite

From a design and construction perspective, Under Armour strived to be as minimalistic as possible, reducing the number of parts needed to create the boot. This concept boot will enable Under Amour to continue to push boundaries for boot construction in the future.