This pair of shoes is vegan Upper made of C.W.L. (Organic cotton coated with resin made from corn & castor oil) Panels made from C.W.L. Logo V made from rubber and rice waste (22%) 100% organic cotton laces Inner lining soft (33% organic cotton & 67% recycled polyester) Insole made of sugar cane (40%), organic cotton (12%), Amazonian rubber (11%) & recycled ethylene vinyl acetate (11%) 59% organically produced and recycled outsole: made from Amazonian rubber (24%), rice waste (23%) & recycled rubber (12%) Made in Brazil, in the Porto Alegre region C.W.L. is an innovative vegan alternative for leather and comes from organic farming by an Italian specialist company The special thing about it is that it is made of cotton, which has a vegetable P.U. is coated. This P.U. consists of 50% corn waste from the food industry and 50% ordinary P.U.