Danny Pormes and Erna Pordes-Redecker work at FastFeetGrinded, their shoe recycling company.
Danny Pormes and Erna Pordes-Redecker work at FastFeetGrinded, their shoe recycling company.
  • Most of the 50 billion shoes produced every year end up in landfills.
  • A Dutch company, however, says it's figured out a solution.
  • FastFeetGrinded says it uses heat to breakdown shoes so they can be recycled.

Shoes have proven difficult to recycle, but one Dutch company thinks it has found the perfect formula to sustainably break down footwear.