US' Nike unveils Pegasus Turbo Next Nature performance footwear

The shoe uses 100 per cent recycled Flyknit yarns in the upper to create a more secure, breathable and lightweight fit.  Solution-dyed yarn in the Flyknit uses a dyeing process that saves 70 litres of water for every kilogram of yarn produced, the company said in a press release.

Nike created the Peg Turbo Next Nature with insights learned throughout Nike Running. In 2018, the first Peg Turbo was born out of a key finding from the Nike Zoom Vaporfly four per cent: Leaving out the carbon fibre plate while retaining the Nike ZoomX foam in the midsole was effective for a system based around daily training.

In 2021, the Air Zoom AlphaFly Next Nature proved that a performance shoe — and a pinnacle racing shoe, no less — could be made with recycled materials. Recycled ZoomX foam and recycled Flyknit yarns were used to create a model that cleared a new benchmark for Nike: its first performance shoe made with at least 50 per cent recycled content by weight.

ALCHEMPro News Desk (GK)