Nicole Hughes
March 2, 2008 |
4:53 pm EST
Phoenix Suns’ guard Steve Nash has teamed up with Nike to create the first eco-friendly performance basketball shoe made from manufacturing waste off the company’s factory floor. The upper sole is comprised of leather and synthetic waste, the mid sole of scrap-ground foam left over in factory production, and the out sole incorporates environmentally-preferred Nike Grind materials from footwear manufacturing scraps.
Since 1993, Nike’s “reuse a shoe” recycling program, Nike Grind, has been taking athletic shoes of all brands and turning them into recyclable materials. 
and see how their approach to sustainable footwear is continuing to evolve.
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