Thursday, April 8, 2010

Reusing old sneakers

I know that sneaker companies aren't the most admirable when it comes to the process in which they get their products produced, but this old sneaker resuse idea by Nike is pretty impressive. Nike's Resuse a shoe recycling process takes old sneakers and seperates them into three parts, the rubber of the shoe, the leather, and the soft foam. Each part is grounded up in order to be used for other things such as, basketball courts, running tracks, and tennis courts. Every part of the shoe is reused. What is really im pressive is the process. They first start off by... better yet check out this cool website and see for yourself.

http://www.nikereuseashoe.com/

So, the next time you think about throwing that pair of old shoes away, look for your closest Nike outlet and hand them over to them in order to turn your trash into treasure.

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