I still can't stop buying them...I rarely throw them out anyway
If I had to estimate, I would assume I currently own and wear about 40 pairs of shoes, between all the boots, sandals, heels, and flip flops in my closet. You can say Im a bit of a shoe addict. But after learning how long it takes for soles to compost, Im re-thinking my love affair. According to Thomas Briel of BIO-D Biodegradable Shoes from Simple Shoes, your average footwear sits in a landfill for about 1,000 years before they decompose. Just think about that for a second. Over the course of a lifetime, Im sure people accumulate hundreds of shoes. Multiply that by the population of the world, and were quickly destroying our lovely Earth just with what we wear on our feet. Because of this, Simple Shoes designed an entire collection of shoes that only take 20 years to compost, instead of the overwhelming 1,000. Now that I know the damage my shoes are doing to the environment, Ill really think twice about buying a pair I dont actually need. Will you? [Treehugger]
If I had to estimate, I would assume I currently own and wear about 40 pairs of shoes, between all the boots, sandals, heels, and flip flops in my closet. You can say Im a bit of a shoe addict. But after learning how long it takes for soles to compost, Im re-thinking my love affair. According to Thomas Briel of BIO-D Biodegradable Shoes from Simple Shoes, your average footwear sits in a landfill for about 1,000 years before they decompose. Just think about that for a second. Over the course of a lifetime, Im sure people accumulate hundreds of shoes. Multiply that by the population of the world, and were quickly destroying our lovely Earth just with what we wear on our feet. Because of this, Simple Shoes designed an entire collection of shoes that only take 20 years to compost, instead of the overwhelming 1,000. Now that I know the damage my shoes are doing to the environment, Ill really think twice about buying a pair I dont actually need. Will you? [Treehugger]