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Give your old running shoes a second chance
We bring you great green news – you can now recycle your old running shoes at Melton Sports.
We have teamed up with JogOn, a campaign which aims to remove perfectly good running shoes from landfill and put them onto the feet of millions of people around the world who would benefit from them.
To give your old running shoes a second chance, all you have to do is tie them up as a pair with the laces, drop them in our collection box and we will do the rest. With Evri as one of JogOn’s partners, we can send off up to 30 pairs at a time for just £2.
It is thought some 30-plus million pairs of running shoes end up in landfill in the UK every year. They can take up to 1,000 years to decompose, and yet many have a lot of life left in them!
Tony Piedade (pictured), founder of www.jogonagain.com
There are millions of people in the world who have no shoes or suffer terribly from foot problems and could benefit from them, so JogOn has partnered with logistics and distribution partners to get your running shoes to some 15 destinations around the world. Its initial aim is to get one million pairs out of landfill.
All shoes are inspected and prepared to be distributed for a second chance; only those that are ‘end of life’ are filtered out, shredded and sent for recycling.
So clear out your cupboard of any old running shoes and turn your miles into a smile with Melton Sports and JogOn.