Donate Your Used Running Shoes
February 9, 2008
As runners, we go through a lot of running shoes. If we simply throw them in the trash, that stacks up to a lot of garbage reaching our landfills and solid waste incinerators every year. And the more garbage that’s in our landfills and incinerators, the more polluted our groundwater and air becomes. And if we’re drinking tainted water and breathing toxic air, it does nothing for our marathon time! So why not donate used running shoes?
When you donate used running shoes, you help the environment, you help yourself—and you can even help others! There are many organizations in the U.S. where you can donate used running shoes.
When you donate used running shoes, you can help put shoes on the feet of the poor and the homeless. Here’s just a sample of U.S. organizations where you can donate used running shoes:
Little Rock Roadrunners Club: donates used running shoes to schools and the homeless
P.O. Box 250229
Hillcrest Station
Little Rock, AR 72225
littlerockroadrunners@yahoo.com
Arizona Road Racers: donates used running shoes to coaches of underprivileged student athletes
P. O. Box 37876
Phoenix, AZ 85069-7876
(602) 954-8341
World Shoe Relief: donates used running shoes to poor and homeless
Post office box 423
Trabuco Canyon, CA 92678
Running Wild: donates used running shoes to youths in need through the local Johnson and Linn county agencies
1801 2nd Street
Clock Tower Plaza
Coralville, IA 52241
(319) 351-3602
Central Florida Gliders Running Shoe Recycle Program: donates used running shoes to youth runners in Kenya
www.cfgliders.com
coachwise@hotmail.com
First Christian Church of Jacksonville, Florida: donates used running shoes to the poor of Haiti
fcc@csj.net
Helping Hands Shoe Bank: donates used running shoes to poor in the U.S. and in other nations
c/o Michael Barringer
Post Office Box 91
Rockwall, TX 75087
(972) 771-7658
www.shoebank.org
michaelbarringer@sbcglobal.net
Donate your used running shoes, and reap the benefits of protecting the environment, helping the less fortunate, and having a squeaky clean conscience! When you donate used running shoes, you’ll breathe—and rest—a little easier!
