Celebrating Earth Day and continuing their shared goal of making MLS the most sustainable league in sports, Major League Soccer and adidas have unveiled the One Planet Kit, made entirely out of Parley Ocean Plastic – a recycled material created from reimagined plastic waste.
For over five years, adidas and MLS have partnered to raise awareness about plastic waste in our oceans through specially made kits in partnership with Parley. Now, the league-wide ‘One Planet’ kits have been released for 2023, with Inter Miami going the extra mile in their campaign for the third year running. The kits will be worn league-wide on Matchday 9 this weekend (22-23 April) as MLS celebrates Earth Day and continues its goal of becoming the most sustainable league in sports.
Made entirely out of Parley Ocean plastic – a recycled material created from reimagined plastic waste – the hand-drawn kit design pays homage to the ocean floor each jersey aims to protect. Blended into the swirling print, the repeating wordmark "End Plastic Waste" serves as a call to action uniting each club in the collective stewardship of our planet.
To make the jerseys, adidas intercepts plastics on remote islands, beaches and coastal communities before they have the chance to reach high-risk ocean environments. Once collected, those plastics are shredded, melted and mixed with a threaded material, ultimately completing the transformation from problem to performance.
Adidas and Parley for the Oceans have been working together since 2015, and over the years the partnership has produced a whole raft of products, created from recovered plastic waste from the world’s oceans. Recently, the adidas x Parley collaboration introduced a pack that included all of the Three Stripes’ key boot franchises – Predator Accuracy, X Speedportal and Copa Pure – created using Parley plastics, strengthening adidas’ commitment to contributing to help reduce plastic waste.
The collaboration between MLS, adidas and Parley for the Oceans serves to encourage fans to decrease their use of single-use plastics and reinforce the importance of changing human attitude and behaviour towards plastic pollution through the Parley AIR Strategy: Avoid. Intercept. Redesign.
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