Put your foot down and put a stop to trainer over-consumption and waste. The charity JogOn is making great strides in cutting landfill and donating where possible.
JogOn is a UK-wide campaign that aims to reduce the number of running shoes that end up in landfill each year.
The campaign launched in April 2022. It has the goal of removing one million pairs of running shoes from landfill.
So far, it has collected approximately 15,000 pairs.
Landfills and running shoes: shocking statistics
An average pair of trainers takes about a thousand years to decompose. Yet 33 million pairs of trainers are being added to landfill each year.
JogOn’s process is simple: 97% of the running shoes that they receive are still in good enough condition to be re-used.
These shoes are sent to charities that service end users, organisations who run outreach programmes and microeconomies.
JogOn: turning waste into something good
In the UK, JogOn’s work has meant school children can continue doing sport in and out of school because they have trainers to wear.
As well as donating shoes, the campaign makes sure any end-of-life shoes are sent to Waste to Energy. This incinerates waste to produce electricity as an alternative to landfill.
How can you get involved?
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