{"id":2948,"date":"2019-09-23T11:29:53","date_gmt":"2019-09-23T11:29:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/?p=2948"},"modified":"2019-09-23T11:29:54","modified_gmt":"2019-09-23T11:29:54","slug":"end-of-life-management-of-shoes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/index.php\/2019\/09\/23\/end-of-life-management-of-shoes\/","title":{"rendered":"End-of-life Management of Shoes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pdfs.semanticscholar.org\/f370\/d16cbee52e7a7c183f30dc346127120c0eeb.pdf\">https:\/\/pdfs.semanticscholar.org\/f370\/d16cbee52e7a7c183f30dc346127120c0eeb.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Approximately 40 different materials can be used in the\nmanufacturing of a shoe. To meet the needs of customers and\nbe competitive, footwear companies must face two key challenges: being quick to\nmarket changes and stay relevant in order to identify or establish new consumer\ntrends. This leads to a shorter life cycle of shoes, and an even increasingly\nshorter product development cycle for the footwear industry. A shorter life\ncycle of shoes means that more shoes have been produced over the years, so\nleading to a higher level of EoL waste by the footwear industry. From 1990 to\n2004, worldwide footwear production has increased by 70% to around 17 billion\npairs of shoes while by 2010 experts in the sector expect the global footwear\noutput to reach 20 billion pairs [4]. Shoe production and consumption is\ndefinitely rising. Western Europe and United States consume 2 billion pairs of\nshoes every year [4]. In the UK alone, more than 330 million pairs of shoes,\nwith a total market value of more than \u00a35 billion are consumed every year [5]. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, the major environmental challenge that footwear\nindustry is currently facing, is the enormous amount of waste generated at the\nend-of-life phase. Some 12 billions pairs of shoes produced worldwide every\nyear, with most of them being disposed in landfills. Landfill sites can result\nin serious environmental pollution of groundwater and rivers, due to landfill\nleachate. Landfill space is also becoming extremely limited, especially in some\nEuropean countries where available landfill space is non-existent. Finally,\nforthcoming product-related environmental legislation is expected to change the\napproach of the footwear industry regarding its EoL waste. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Analysis: This article outlines the\nchallenges faced by footwear companies when discarding old shoes. It also\noutlines the different programs trying to reduce the amount of waste generated\nfrom the footwear industry. This article was helpful in outlining the many\ndifferent ways to discard of your shoes by introducing many businesses that are\nworking to reuse and recycle old shoes so they don\u2019t end up in landfills. <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/pdfs.semanticscholar.org\/f370\/d16cbee52e7a7c183f30dc346127120c0eeb.pdf Approximately 40 different materials can be used in the manufacturing of a shoe. To meet the needs of customers and be competitive, footwear companies must face two key challenges: being quick to market changes and stay relevant in order to identify or establish new consumer trends. 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