Barcelona“I wasn’t aware of the problem we have with the sneakers until I got home,” explains Max Romey. After climbing peaks halfway across the planet, this Alaskan adventurer read a report about the problem with one of his professional tools: running shoes. It is estimated that around 20 billion pairs of sneakers are sold worldwide each year. And 90% do not end up being recycled. The majority usually end up in landfills, and in many cases end up in the sea for different reasons. “People dumping them in landfills near the river, poor disposal practices… it can happen. But these slippers, on their own, would take millennia to disappear. So they float in the sea and end up in remote places “explains Romey, who developed a new sense: spotting abandoned sneakers. Back in Alaska, the region he came to with his parents when he was just an infant, he noticed that whenever he hiked and hiked, an old shoe appeared.
Could your bums end up floating ashore in Alaska?
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