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How to get rid of old running shoes in an environmentally friendly way (social.fossware.space)

submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/running

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I have several pairs of old running shoes gathering dust in my closet, because I am hesitant to just throw them away in the trash.

Years ago, I read something about one of the shoe manufacturing companies having some shoe recycling program, so I'm hoping that it caught on - but I can't find anything like that anywhere today.

What do you guys do with your old, worn-down running shoes?

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[–] RunningInRVA 7 points 2 years ago

Stay away from this one:

https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/global-plastic-dow-shoes/

[–] dzfox 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I would check if your local running store does anything. Mine has a program to repurpose old shoes.

[–] verity_kindle 2 points 2 years ago

Thanks for the suggestion

[–] verity_kindle -1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It depends on what shape they're in when they don't support my arches any more. If they don't have holes or rips, I wash them and give them to charity. If they are wrecked, I burn them with our other trash.

[–] Ouirobbs 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Why would you burn your trash?

[–] verity_kindle -1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

We burn our trash because we can't afford to pay a private company to pick it up and take it to a landfill.

[–] sirnak 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Where do you live if I may ask?

[–] verity_kindle 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I'd rather not give out my location, as I don't see the relevance.

[–] sirnak 2 points 2 years ago

That's perfectly fine