A youth-at-risk charity raising funds by manufacturing shoes made from cane toads says it is a "huge missed opportunity" that it cannot buy cane toad leather in Australia.The Ted Noffs Foundation says it started producing the handmade cane toad sneakers to raise money for its Sydney drop-in centre.
It says cane toad leather seemed the most ecologically sustainable material available.
"We were looking at using materials that were going to be more biodegradable and so we started looking at things which were better for the environment, such as roo over bovine," Matt Noffs from the foundation said.
"And then someone said you can actually get cane toad, and I thought, well, that would be really interesting."
But the charity says its leather supplier is having to buy the cane toad skins in Indonesia because there is no processing factory in Australia.
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More about Gideon Shoes here
Also check out the ABC documentary on this amazing Noffs family here The part about the shoes business is at the end in the last five minutes.
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