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Since 2003, Terra Plana have been making good-looking eco-friendly shoes, in the UK, Italy, Portugal, Spain, Romania, Morocco and Mexico
- always looking for pioneering new ways of producing them. And Anti- Apathy have been finding ever more entertaining, satisfying and intriguing ways to build social and environmental enterprises.

One hot evening in Spring 2004, in a crowded nightclub, AA and TP met, fell in love and decided to make shoes together. Shoes for people who want good-looking feet, without a guilty conscience. Anti- Apathy have always looked for new ways of working that could improve labour standards, help deal with climate change and address issues of global trade and sustainability.

Worn Again is a way of trying to fit all of that work into a shoe. A beautiful, sexy, guilt-free shoe. So, how are we doing at developing the definitive ethical trainer? (Or go here to look at the shoes...).
our vision - the definitive ethical trainer

The trainer business isn't pretty. From finding the materials, to the treatment of the people who put them together, to transporting the finished product - making shoes is one of the most resource- intensive, polluting and toxic industries there is. So, making a perfectly ethical trainer isn't easy. But Worn Again is working - step-by-step - to show that it can be done - and that people want it to be done. And the fact that you're reading this page means it might just be possible.

The first thing we addressed was the ingredients. Our original Worn Again collection kept old men's suits, car seats, granddad shirts and prison blankets from ending up in landfill. And since then, we've been discovering more and more unexpected things that can be made into fantastic trainers: coffee bags, fireman's trousers, jeans...