Do you have some athletic shoes that are too well-used to donate to charity, but hate to waste?  Reuse-A-Shoe is one of Nike's longest running environmental and community programs, and is endorsed by our El Paso County Environmental Services Department. 

Nike collects worn-out athletic shoes - they'll take any brand - and then processes them to recycle into material used in sports surfaces.  Instead of clogging landfills, your old shoes could become part of a sports court, athletic field, running track or playground, in an area which lacks sport facilities. 

Since the program's start, Nike has recycled more than 21 million pairs of athletic shoes, and created or refurbished 265 sports surfaces.  It's not just the rubber soles that are recycled, but also the uppers and mid-soles.  Pretty neat! (No word on what happens to the shoe laces.)

To drop shoes off locally, visit the Boulder Running Company store at 3659 Austin Bluffs Parkway unit 32 (west of Academy Blvd).

Reuse-A-Shoe is part of Nike's Let Me Play campaign.  To find out more, visit the website.  

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