Soles4Souls,
the international shoe charity, during the month of April is asking
people to go green by cleaning out their closets and dropping off
their gently worn shoes at drop-off locations in their area.
Soles4Souls
is collaborating with businesses like CBL Properties, where people can
visit any of CBL’s 70 shopping malls to recycle their shoes. For a list
of participating shopping malls, visit www.cblproperties.com. There are
also 4,000 other official drop-off locations throughout the country,
available at www.giveshoes.org.
“We have a goal at Soles4Souls
to prevent even one pair of shoes from making it into the landfills,”
said Wayne Elsey, Founder and CEO of Soles4Souls. “With the 40th
anniversary of Earth Day we are setting a precedent by teaching the
public about the international need for shoes and how recycling your
old shoes can essentially save someone else’s life. We need more
companies like CBL to step up and help further the global effort to
reuse,” he said.
The shoe charity recently committed 1.3
million pairs of shoes to the country of Haiti to help the victims of
the 7.0 magnitude earthquake. Since 2005, Soles4Souls has given away
over 8.5 million pairs of new and gently worn shoes (currently
distributing one pair every 9 seconds).
