Fashion sneakers propel sustainable rubber in Brazil Amazon
A worker transports a slab of raw rubber at a rubber industrial plant of the cooperative called Cooperacre, in Sena Madureira, Acre state, Brazil, Friday, Dec. 9, 2022. The shoe manufacturer Veja works with Cooperacre, reenergizing the production of a sustainable forest product and improving the living of hundreds of rubber tapper families. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)
By FABIANO MAISONNAVE, TATIANA POLLASTRI AND ERALDO PERES
XAPURI, Brazil — Rubber tapper Raimundo Mendes de Barros prepares to leave his home, surrounded by rainforest, for an errand in the Brazilian Amazon city of Xapuri. He slides his long, scarred, 77-year-old feet into a pair of sneakers made by Veja, a French brand...
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