NORTH BABYLON SCHOOL DISTRICT

The Robert Moses Middle School Environmental-Recycling Club members spearheaded a project to recycle used Sneakers.  The club was in charge of promoting the project, collecting the sneakers from the classes, counting the sneakers, and boxing up the sneakers to be given
to Nike.  Nike then grinds the sneakers down and turns them into different surfaces such as tracks, playgrounds, tennis courts and much more.  The project at Robert Moses collected nearly 100 sneakers that would have otherwise gone into landfills.  As the saying goes; Reduce, Reuse, Recycle and since 1990, Nike’s program has collected over 28 million shoes for recycling.  In addition, Nike has placed Reuse-A-Shoe bins in all of its U.S. retail stores including the Deer Park Tanger store.

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