{"id":2951,"date":"2019-09-23T11:31:43","date_gmt":"2019-09-23T11:31:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/?p=2951"},"modified":"2019-09-23T11:31:45","modified_gmt":"2019-09-23T11:31:45","slug":"recycling-with-sole","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/index.php\/2019\/09\/23\/recycling-with-sole\/","title":{"rendered":"Recycling with Sole"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.waste360.com\/Recycling_And_Processing\/shoe-recycling-201004\">https:\/\/www.waste360.com\/Recycling_And_Processing\/shoe-recycling-201004<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According\nto the U.S. Department of the Interior, Americans throw away at least 300\nmillion pairs of shoes each year. These shoes end up in landfills, where they\ncan take 30 to 40 years to decompose. Nashville, Tenn.-based Soles4Souls is an\ninternational non-profit dedicated to diverting usable shoes from landfills and\nredistributing them to people in need.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Astonishingly,\naccording to the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), the number\nof children around the world who have never owned a pair of shoes also equals\n300 million. In fact, it&#8217;s one of the primary benchmarks the agency uses to\ndenote &#8220;abject poverty,&#8221; the most severe level of poverty on USAID&#8217;s\nscale. Those who live in abject&nbsp;poverty are defined as being &#8220;without\nhope.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A small\npercentage of shoes collected every year are too worn to be repurposed and are\nrecycled into athletic flooring. None of the shoes received by the charity are\nthrown away.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Analysis: This article outlines why we should be\nrecycling our old shoes. It shows how an old pair of shoes can enhance the life\nof a less fortunate person and if the shoe is too worn out then it can find\nanother purpose in athletic flooring. In this model nothing goes to waste or ends\nup in a landfill. <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/www.waste360.com\/Recycling_And_Processing\/shoe-recycling-201004 According to the U.S. Department of the Interior, Americans throw away at least 300 million pairs of shoes each year. These shoes end up in landfills, where they can take 30 to 40 years to decompose. Nashville, Tenn.-based Soles4Souls is an international non-profit dedicated to diverting usable shoes from landfills and redistributing them to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":2952,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2951","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-focus"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2951","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2951"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2951\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2953,"href":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2951\/revisions\/2953"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}