What to do with old shoes?

CelticRambler · 19-04-2021 01:11PM

Sadly, it goes against the grain to think of sending stuff off to the "Third World" so that a bunch of greedy middlemen can make a fortune off the back of some poor African craftsman.

I may have watched too many documentaries on the subject of how our Western waste is poisoning the lives of the "not us" people. So for stuff like this (and electrical waste) I need to know exactly what's happening to it.

ValKra · 30-04-2021 01:06PM

Donations to Simon, if they are non dress shoes?

CelticRambler · 30-04-2021 01:51PM

As mentioned in other posts, these shoes are no longer fit to wear in any context (other than, perhaps, part of a "homeless guy" costume); and I'm really looking for something that *I* can do with them, instead of foisting them onto someone else.

New Home · 30-04-2021 02:25PM

You could fill them with compacted clay and use them as bricks for a border for a flower bed (and cover them with something else because they wouldn't be pretty). I've seen houses built with used tyres and compacted earth - your shoes might not last as long, but you wouldn't have to live in them.

Graces7 · 07-05-2021 10:11AM

When I lived on an Outer Orkney island and there were few if any alternatives, the system was to dig a very deep hole or trench. Bury and cover and grow atop.

nigeldaniel · 16-05-2021 11:26AM

Although I am just speaking for myself I used two old shoes about a year back as bird houses. Used an ingenious ways to attach them to a blackthorn tree. Can't be sure they were used but some ivy is currently hidding them.

What to do with old shoes?

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