Reporters secretly tracked 11 pairs of donated shoes and couldn’t believe where they landed.
If you believe you’ve donated old running shoes to one of the many charitable causes that repurpose them for use on tracks, courts, walkways, or playgrounds, the answer may surprise you., journalists found that shoes donated by the company in partnership with the Dow Chemical Company intended to be turned into playgrounds and running tracks in Singapore were instead being resold at secondhand stores in Indonesia and elsewhere.
Arming the shoes with Bluetooth tracking devices, the reporters could track the exact location of 11 pairs of running shoes in real time. Spoiler alert: no shoes were turned into playgrounds. To follow the trail, the news organization cut a hole into the interior sole of a pair of blue Nikes and placed the tracker inside, hoping to follow them to their final destination. The tracker synced to a smartphone app that showed the shoes’ realtime location.After a few weeks, the shoes left Singapore and sailed across the Singapore Strait to Batam in Indonesia. Assuming that maybe the first pair of shoes was a fluke, thereporters kitted up 10 more pairs of donated shoes.
Ten pairs of shoes that started their journey in Singapore ultimately made their way to Indonesia, with thejournalists tracking them throughout the country.
Runners who hope to make good use of used gear can look to donation programs that repurpose used equipment, like
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