Episodes
Dispatches: The Truth about Nike and Adidas (S2022EP8 Channel 4 Mon 16 May 2022)
The Truth about Nike and Adidas: More than 25 billion pairs of shoes are manufactured every year – that’s three per person in the world. If the trainer industry was a country, it would be the world’s 17th largest polluter – just above Italy. But you wouldn’t know that from looking at the websites of the big brands, which are full of claims about sustainability.
Self-confessed sneaker head Darcy Thomas investigates the truth about our trainers, traveling to the Maldives to see what’s really going on.
Prod/Dir: Alasdair Glennie; Exec Prod: Nicole Kleeman; Prod Co: Firecrest
Airdate: Mon 16 May 2022 at 20:30 on Channel 4
Season 2022 Episode 8
Dispatches is the British TV current affairs documentary series on Channel 4, first transmitted in 1987. The programme covers issues about British society, politics, health,religion, international current affairs and the environment, and often features a mole inside organisations under journalistic investigation.