Got Old Athletic Shoes?

If you are like me when you get a new pair of running or athletic shoes you keep your old ones in case something comes up where you need an old crappy pair that you dont care about. And if you are again like me, the situation where you need an old crappy pair never actually arises so you are left with old random pairs of shoes around your place.
If you want to get rid of them but dont want to just toss them in the trash here are a few options for donating your shoes:

- mail them the nike reuse-a-shoe program at:
Nike Recycling Center
c/o Reuse-A-Shoe
26755 SW 95th Ave.
Wilsonville, OR 97070

One of Nike’s longest-running environmental and community programs, worn-out athletic shoes of any brand are collected, processed and recycled into material used in sports surfaces like basketball courts, tennis courts, athletic fields, running tracks and playgrounds for young people around the world. Every year, millions of pairs of athletic shoes are thrown away, clogging landfills and wasting a lot of good material so this is a very cool way to counteract that.

-Soles4Souls collects new and gently used athletic shoes and donates them to victims of natural disatsters, like victims of Hurricane Ike. You can mail your shoes to:
Soles4Souls, Inc.
Foreign Trade Zone #89
6620 Escondido Street
Las Vegas, Nevada 89119

-Heart and Sole provides new and gently used shoes to the poorest of the world's people. You can mail your shoes to:
Ann Cook
A314 East Fee Hall
College of Osteopathic Medicine
Michigan State University
East Lansing, MI 48824-1316

Since all of my shoes are pretty worn I will be donating mine to Nike so they can be made into sport court somewhere out there. This is an easy way help the enviorment and less fortunate people that cant afford shoes of their own so I highly encourage you to take part.