Fox Chapel Garden Club had a record-setting year with its annual tennis shoe recycling program. The volunteer group, led by co-chairs Ellen Romsaas and Susie Williams, collected 3,198 shoes from ...

Executives from the companies running the shoe recycling project collect a sustainability prize at an awards ceremony hosted by the Singapore International Chamber of Commerce (SICC) on Oct. 6, 2022.

What he discovered would lead him and his wife, Erna, who’s also his business partner, to develop FastFeetGrinded, a shoe-recycling solution to tackle footwear’s waste problem. The carbon ...

Through its technologies, ReNewShoe takes used shoes and recycles them “to the full 100 percent,” producing resources such as rubber, foam, fluff and leather. This material then can be turned into a ...

Image Credit: AIMPLAS 3D printing applied to shoe manufacture is one of the technologies with the greatest growth potential within the footwear industry, a market characterized by customization. In ...

So-called "bonded leather" is really just leather fibers mixed with eco-unfriendly polyurethane or PVC. reProLeather, on the other hand, converts leather waste into what is claimed to be a ...

Like many other clothing and accessory options at Everlane, the ReLeather Tennis Sneakers are made with recycled materials, including a mix of polyester and postindustrial leather scraps that have ...

The Valencian Community produces 65% of the shoes in Spain, which represents about 70 million pairs per year. It is estimated that the waste generated by footwear factories in leather scraps alone ...

Otherwise, Kiwi shoe polish all the way. Here's a hint: use a pea-sized amount of Kiwi black on a medium brown shoe. You get the regular shoe polish shine and great definition from the leather.