{"id":7307,"date":"2018-03-28T10:33:47","date_gmt":"2018-03-28T10:33:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/?p=7307"},"modified":"2018-03-28T10:33:47","modified_gmt":"2018-03-28T10:33:47","slug":"is-algae-the-next-big-performance-story-in-footwear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/2018\/03\/is-algae-the-next-big-performance-story-in-footwear.html","title":{"rendered":"Is Algae the Next Big Performance Story in Footwear?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Can\u00a0the key to a more sustainable footwear industry be found in lakes and ponds? If Bloom has any say in it, maybe.<\/p>\n<p>The maker of the world\u2019s first plant-based performance foam for footwear found its key ingredient in algae. And the Meridian, Mississippi-based\u00a0Bloom\u00a0has created an innovative alternative to conventional foams for insoles, midsoles and outsoles by harvesting it.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-7308 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/vivo-SJ-150x150.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/vivo-SJ-150x150.jpeg 150w, http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/vivo-SJ-45x45.jpeg 45w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Bloom launched three years ago with the\u00a0goal of\u00a0delivering the most performance driven materials in the most sustainable way possible. The company\u2019s performance foam contains between 15 percent and 60 percent algae biomass, which acts as a natural polymer when combined with foaming ingredients.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sourcingjournalonline.com\/is-algae-the-next-big-performance-story-in-footwear\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Can\u00a0the key to a more sustainable footwear industry be found in lakes and ponds? If Bloom has any say in it, maybe. The maker of the world\u2019s first plant-based performance foam for footwear found its key ingredient in algae. And the Meridian, Mississippi-based\u00a0Bloom\u00a0has created an innovative alternative to conventional foams for insoles, midsoles and outsoles [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":7308,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[546,544],"tags":[635,554],"class_list":["post-7307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-algae-non-fuel-products","category-algae-polymers","tag-algae-polymers","tag-algae-products"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7307"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7307\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7309,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7307\/revisions\/7309"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}