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Recycle or Donate your shoe:

We all have shoes lying around the house we don't use. The thing about shoes is they seem to breed. I know there are shoes I don't wear any more and never will, so why do I still keep them? Here are a few things you can do with your old shoes:

Ways to Recycle Your Old Shoes

Freecycle: Freecycle is a great local organization where neighbors share discards and items they no longer need. Visit the freecycle website for more details.
Donate to a homeless shelter: Granted, it might not be practical to donate your red, rhinestone-encrusted strappy sandals, but there are people who will appreciate receiving your old sneaker or hiking boots.
Nike's Reuse a Shoe program - Nike has a program where old athletic shoes are recycled to make playground material and sports services.
Shoes in pristine condition can be sold at consignment stores.
Older shoes can be donated to thrift shops. Most thrift shops donate proceeds to charity.
Have a shoe swap with friends.
Check your local recycle center. They may have a shoe recycling program.
Donate your shoes to Eco Cycle - A recycling program where your shoes will be given to someone who needs them.
Donate your old Kenneth Cole shoes and receive 20% off on a new pair.
Contact Souls 4 Souls to see how to recycle or donate your used shoes.
Visit Recycled Runners to learn about different shoe recycling programs around the world.

When it becomes time to "Kick your old kicks" consider donating them to the Nike Reuse-A-Shoe program. Nike will take your old athletic shoes (they do not need to be Nike) and make new products with them, such as sports and play surfaces to help keep and get kids active. These surfaces include soccer and football fields, basketball and tennis courts, tracks and playground surfacing.

The grind rubber, from outsoles and recycled manufacturing material, goes into baseball and soccer fields, as well as golf products, weight room flooring and running tracks. The fabric from textile and leather uppers is used for padding under hardwood basketball floors.

Since the program began in 1993, Nike has dontaed more than 170 sport surfaces to communities around the world. Located in the United States, the United Kingdom, Japan and Australia, you can help continue the success of these programs.

To learn more about this program, please visit the oficial site: Nikebiz.com

Recycle Your jeans and make shoes:

Cumbrian based shoe manufacturers Softwalker Ltd have launched a new online business Recycleyourjeans.com which takes in your old jeans and recycles them to create new footwear. Sign up and they'll send you a prepaid envelope for your jeans and a week or two later you'll get some sandals back.

"More than 99% of all footwear sold in the UK has travelled half way around the world before it gets to the consumer, whereas the Kalahari sandals are made locally and so have the lowest transport footprint of any sandal on the market,' says sales and marketing director Cat Stables.

This new environmental range has the lowest carbon footprint of any shoes or sandals in the country, and it's a fun way to personalise your re-cycling. They make a great eco-present for green warriors. Wearing your old jeans on your feet is a more practical statement than just wearing your green heart on your sleeve.

A list of organizations that accept used shoes.

Below is a list of giving your old shoe to someone who really need it. But you easily got surprised as there is no organization in India which is doing the same. So let's make a little effort from our side to. I have contacted several organizations for this if you have any information so please share and make a effort for India also where people are going bare foot for work.

Nike Reuse-A-Shoe

Nike Recycling Center

c/o Reuse-A-Shoe

26755 SW 95th Ave.

Wilsonville, OR 97070

nikereuseashoe.com

One World Running

boulderrunning.com.

The Shoe Bank

Michael Barringer

Shoe Bank

205 Becky Lane