Turn worn-out Crocs into footwear for others March 18, 2008

SolesUnited^sm is the name of a program set up to collect used Crocs^tm so that they can be repurposed into footwear that can be donated to those in need around the world.

How it works:

1. Wear your Crocs until the tread is worn and you don’t want them anymore
2. Donate old Crocs at a participating location, or mail them to the SolesUnited program.
3. They will be sorted, ground up, made into new SolesUnited shoes, and then sent to approved non-profit locations around the world.
4. The shoes are then donated to those in need.

So far, SolesUnited has donated over 1 million pairs of shoes. The goal for 2008 is to send a total of 2 million pairs to Armenia, Cambodia, Chad, Darfur, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Malawi, Mali, Moldova, Philippines, Romania, Swaziland, Tanzania, Thailand, Vietnam, and Zimbabwe.