![]() None of them made it to a Singapore recycling facility.įour pairs ended up in locations in Indonesia that were too remote for Reuters to track down in person. Over a 6-month period, Reuters put trackers into and donated altogether 11 pairs of footwear. Now let’s go somewhere quieter and make sure this is the same pair that we dropped off in Singapore.” “I’ve just bought these shoes from a shop here in this market in Jakarta for 300,000 rupiahs, which is about US$20. And I can see that the signal is coming from inside so I’m going to go in and see if I can find those shoes.” “Okay, I followed the tracker as far as this market in Jakarta. ![]() In fact, some had traveled much further than Singapore, to the point that Joe had to travel by air and sea to find them. Within weeks it was clear to see they had not. Reuters wanted to follow a donated shoe from start to finish to see if it did, in fact, end up in new athletic surfaces in Singapore, or at least made it as far as a local recycling facility for shredding. The company says it’s creating valuable products from plastic waste. In the past it has launched recycling efforts that have fallen short of their stated aims. We’re going to go to ten different spots and drop off our shoes and we’ll see where they go.”ĭow is a major producer of chemicals used to make plastics and other synthetic materials, some of which end up in sneakers. “So Dow and Sport Singapore have set up dozens of locations around the country where you can drop off your shoes. And I’m just going to call this ‘Shoe 1.' And now once we put that in the shoe, we drop it off, and we’ll be able to see wherever it goes in the world.” “I’m going to take this tracker and I’m going to sync it up with my phone. "So what I'm going to do is that I'm going cut a cavity hole in the sole of each pair of shoes, one of the shoes of each pair, place the tracker in there. So we want to see if that's what they're really doing." They say they're going to take any shoe, which has a rubber sole, grind it down, and turn it into running tracks, and playgrounds. firm, has teamed up with the Singapore government, in a scheme to recycle pairs of shoes. Joe Brock, Reuters Special Correspondent: “What we’re doing today is we’re finding out what happens to your recycling. Let’s rewind several months to unpack where this promise went wrong. ![]() They were supposed to be recycled into playgrounds and jogging tracks, as promised by the Singapore government and U.S. This market is not where they’re supposed to end up. There they are – the blue Nike running shoes that he fitted with a tracker months before so that he could follow their journey. It takes him to a mound of second-hand shoes. STORY: At a rundown market in Indonesia, Reuters correspondent Joe Brock is following the bleeping sound of a tracking device.
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