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The PALS Green Impact team is taking us on another sustainability journey - this time called "JogOn PALS" which is all about recycling old trainers.
*Latest update on the JogOn PALS initiative*:聽The Bartlett School of Environment, Energy and Resources
have partnered with JogOn following in the leadership footsteps of UCL PALS, and it's been a great success!
Approximately 18bn pairs of running shoes are sold in the world every year.聽That's the equivalent to 2 pairs of running shoes per person on earth.聽Yet, there are millions who have no shoes and suffer terribly from sole diseases.聽
鈥婭t is not an easy to be precise, but聽聽believe that some 30+ million pairs of shoes end up in landfill every year!聽Many of these shoes have a lot of life left in them!聽
UCL PALS have partnered with 聽to聽help do our bit聽to get trainers to those who need them and keep running shoes out of landfil.聽Donated running shoes will be either distributed to hubs around the world or shredded and recycled.聽
Huge praise should be given to Charlotte Patient, one of our own undergraduate psychology students, who found out about the聽initiative and has helped set up donation boxes within聽PALS. Donation聽boxes can be found at 26 Bedford Way (outside the common room), ground Floor of UCLIC and聽the atrium of Chandler House.
Charlotte can be seen below donating聽her old trainers, alongside聽Kate Copsey,聽John Draper and聽Richard Jardine.聽We have since had many more donations so thank you to all those who have participated so far. The scheme has been piloted by PALS in the hope the initiative will be taken up across 宅男视频 in due course.聽
Look聽in that cupboard, garage, under the bed, they may be old to you, but by donating them to JogOn PALS you will be giving them another life. Get donating today!!
