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SOS - Save Our Shoes
How used shoes help others in third world countries
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Name several ways to make use of shoes that have outlived their usefulness to you. | Give shoes to a family member or friend; donate your shoes to a Reuse-a-Shoes program; Make a "free" bin; put the shoes in a box on the street and see if there are any takers. |
| What additional use for old shoes is a"green thumb" solution? | Make a "garden sculpture". Fill the shoe with soil and transplant some hardier greens into the top or between the laces. |
| What can old sports shoes create? | New products |
| How much of the old sports shoe material is reused? | Virtually all |
| Unusable old sports shoes are ground up to make how many high quality materials. | Three |
| How are the ground up materials used? | To make sports and consumer products |
| What are the high quality materials? | Rubber, foam, upper fabric |
| What does the shoe recycling program create besides new products? | Jobs |
| What is the first step the shoes recycled to other countries have done? | Good shoes are sorted from the worn out ones |
| How are wearable shoes sorted? | By size, and gender |
| How are the shoes sold? | By weight |
| Unwearable shoes are sent to? | Buyers |
| What do buyers do with the unusable shoes? | Break them down into original materials |
| Recycling shoes keep thousands out of? | Landfills |
| Bolivian Archeologists found a pair of shoes dating from? | 10,000 years |
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