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Article: Test recycling program offers new life for old shoes.(BUSINESS)
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- Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
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- April 5, 2008
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Byline: DEE DePASS; STAFF WRITER
These shoes are made for ... recycling? The REI store for outdoors enthusiasts is now accepting customers' funky old shoes as part of a test recycling program in partnership with Maplewood-based Wipers Recycling and the Recycling Association of Minnesota (RAM), officials recently announced.
Wipers Recycling will collect, grind and repackage the shoes into oil-absorbing spill kits for use in industrial settings, airports, rivers, lakes and parks.
The effort, called "Run in and Recycle," is part of a greater plan to boost Minnesota's recycling rates from 40 percent now to 50 percent by 2011, RAM organizers said.
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