Miami — A donation box at the Brickell Run Club in Miami, Florida, asks runners to recycle used sneakers that would otherwise wind up in the trash.
“Typically, on a weekly basis, we’ll probably get, I don’t know, maybe, 20 pairs of running shoes that people have decided to part ways with,” said Frankie Ruiz, the club’s founder. “…We collect them every week. We fill up one of these boxes, typically, once or twice a month.”
They are one of several such drop-off locations across the United States for the used shoes that are then collected by the for-profit recycling company Sneaker Impact…