Smelly old shoe

If you are like me you probably have several pairs of old athletic shoes, running shoes, cross trainers and just plain old athletic shoes. I usually rotate these shoes from current running shoes, to yard work shoes to the trash and on to the next new pair. That was until I found out about this cool program sponsored by Nike. Nike has a program called NikeGO that helps promote healthier lifestyles for kids by encouraging physical activities. As part of NikeGO they have a program called Reuse-A-Shoe that recycles old athletic shoes and turns them into sports courts covered with a surface called Nike Grind. This program began in 1993 and has built more than 170 sports courts in communities around the world. This benefits us in several ways the least of which is to provide safe surfaces for kids to play on and keeps hundreds of thousands of old shoes out of landfills, overall a win for all of us.

You can learn more about the NikeGO program and Reuse-A-Shoe at the following websites and can also find a drop off location in your area for your old, smelly shoes: www.nikego.com and www.nikereuseashoe.com

You can also send your shoes to Nike at the following address:

Nike Recycle Center c/o Reuse-A-Shoe 26755 SW 95th Ave Wilsonville, OR 97070

Let’s do our part to help out and start sending our old, smelly shoes to Nike, they won’t mind!