RECYCLED FOOTWEAR
Recycling - Meeting the demand for used shoes in developing countries
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e are a recycling company with a difference as we are offering an alternative convenient method of collecting all unwanted, used shoes and diverting them away
from landfill sites which are all under threat of closure in the coming years.
Not only can you donate your unwanted old shoes in the usual way at recycling sites which often means making a special trip, however you can get involved directly yourself by taking one of our bright cardboard container or stands into your shop, office, school or club and get rewarded financially! This initiative will encourage more people to responsibly dispose of their footwear while raising funds for their organisation or a chosen charity knowing that the shoes donated will be reused by those who urgently need them. The simple facts are that all households in the
UK throws away enough rubbish as the same weight of 4.85 million male African Elephants and in that rubbish people are still throwing away shoes that have so much life left to be reused. Our company wants to work to help reverse this and we all know that footwear does not
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breakdown in landfill, after all we are still recovering leather sandals from the Roman occupation of our country way back in AD 43. The world's oldest leather shoe, made from a single piece of cowhide laced with a leather cord along seams at the front and back, was found in a cave in Armenia in 2008 and is believed to date to 3,500 BC – therefore shoes to landfill makes no sense!
This in itself will make a big difference and will create employment not only here in the UK but in the countries where opportunities are sparse. We take the shoes in the bottom of our wardrobes for granted as the national average of shoes owned in the UK is 5.6 pairs per person, whereas in rural African areas the average is 1.2 pair per family! The final destination of our donated shoes will
provide affordable footwear for people to walk to work and walk to school. More importantly, will help to create a future for themselves and in return we are helping to create an environmentally cleaner future for ourselves too! The extra working opportunities are in the
grading and sorting and despatching and collection in the countries of destination. Also traders can buy shoes at very reasonable prices and repair those and sell on to provide valuable income.
There are so many advantages to recycling
footwear for reuse. The obvious fact is that by using our containers, we are not throwing useful footwear into a large hole in our countryside but sending it to developing countries to help those less fortunate than ourselves.
Please call us on our Free Phone number 0800 234 6011 for more information about us and our aims.
www.unitedshoe.co.uk
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