Vancouver: Turn your beat-up runners into a basketball court

by Rebecca Tay

While it has yet to be seen what the longer legacy of the Olympics will be, one that’s sticking around for now is Nike’s Reuse-A-Shoe (nikereuseashoe.com/Vancouver) drive. Drop off your old runners—and no, they needn’t be Nike—at one of six collection bins in the company’s stores around Vancouver and they’ll be recycled into three types of Nike Grind material, which are then used to create athletic and playground surfaces. The program has existed since the early ’90s and has recycled parts from more than 24 million pairs of shoes—sounds like a lot, but it takes about 2,500 pairs to make a basketball or tennis court, and up to 75,000 pairs to make a soccer pitch! I’ve packed up my beat-up sneakers (the thrift stores don’t want them anyway!) and dropped them off.

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