Sneaker Recycling

It must be Spring…it is time once again to get those old athletic shoes out of the closet and recycle them! 

The Connecticut Recyclers Coalition / Nike Reuse-A-Shoe program continues for 2010 with a few important changes:

• All collections must be completed by May 15, 2010.

• All shoes must be delivered to the final collection point, Willimantic Waste, for consolidation by May 20, 2010.

• Nike will pick up all shoes before the end of May 2010.

Our past programs ran through the month of June,

so it is important to note this abbreviated schedule. 

The entire Reuse-A-Shoe program is being revised by the folks at Nike and new program guidelines will be available in June.  At this writing we have no details about what the new structure will be; however, we will provide information just as soon as we can.  Please notify everyone you know of who is involved in the shoe collections so that programs can be adjusted.   The program has been most successful, but, unfortunately, we do not have a list of all of the collection partners.   

If you have any questions or would like to talk about the program, please contact me.  Thank you for your patience—and all your wonderful collection efforts.  Connecticut sent three 53 food tractor trailer loads of shoes to Nike in the last 12 months!  Great recycling!

The CRC encourages Connecticut residents to keep their sneakers out of the trash by donating them for reuse or recycling.

If your sneakers are still in wearable shape donate them to a non-profit that will sell or pass along your sneakers for others to wear:

Goodwill             check your local listings         also accepts non-sneakers

Salvation Army   check your local listings         also accepts non-sneakers

Shoe4Africa        http://www.shoe4africa.org/  sneakers only

Soles4Souls        http://www.soles4souls.org/  also accepts non-sneakers

If your sneakers are no longer wearable recycle them via the Nike Reuse-A-Shoe program.  The CRC is proud to be one of the few state recycling organizations that has partnered with Nike on an on-going basis. Nike recycles the sneaker rubber into playground and all weather athletic surfaces:   http://www.nikereuseashoe.com/.  Sneakers must be dry and relatively clean.  They must be delivered to Willimantic Waste Paper Company by May 20, 2010.  No cleats or other non-sneakers, please!

BROOKFIELD

Huckleberry Hill Elementary

100 Candlewood Lake Road

Brookfield, CT  06804

March  1st - Saturday April 25, 2009

Final day as part of Earth Day celebration, April 25th, 12 - 4 pm

Dorina Leslie

203-775-9561, lesliecrew@yahoo.com

COVENTRY

1712 Main Street

Coventry, CT  06238

Coventry offers year round collection at all four schools, town hall, library, public works, transfer station and senior center whenever the particular buildings are open.

Donna Wrubel

860-742-6588

dwrubel@coventryct.org

FAIRFIELD

Fairfield Warde High School

May 9th (2009) Earth Day Fair

Mike Zembruski

203-256-3023

GRANBY

Transfer Station (Saturday only), Old Stagecoach Road, also

Public Works, 52 North Granby Road
Sally Crapser

860-653-8960

town residents are given preference for drop off. 

Non-residents should call first.

HARTFORD

CRRA Visitors Center

211 Murphy Road

Hartford, CT  06114

Sotoria Montanari

860-247-4280

MANSFIELD

4 South Eagleville Road

Storrs, CT  06268

Virginia Walton

860-429-3333

MERIDEN

WeRecycle!, Inc.

500 South Broad Street

Meriden, CT  06450

Gina Chiarella

203-630-0344

MIDDLETOWN

City of Middletown Recycling Center

185 Johnson Street, Middletown, CT

M-F 7:00 a.m. - 3 p.m. 1st & 3rd Sat of the month

7am - 12 noon April, May, June, every Sat 7am - 12 noon

Kim O'Rourke, 860-344-3526 or kim.orourke@cityofmiddletown.com

WETHERSFIELD

Eleanor Buck Wolf Nature Center

156 Prospect Street

Wethersfield, CT  06109

Christopher Shepard

860-529-3075
www.ebwnaturecenter.org

Earth Day, April 22, through the final collection date . Open Tuesday-Saturday 10:00-5:00 except Thursday 10:00-7:00.