Where can you recycle safety boots and shoes?

The week after Christmas and New Year's Day is always an interesting one. It’s the week when we are in a frenzy returning the gifts that don’t fit or work, only to buy more new stuff at boxing day sales, end-of-year sales, new-year-sales.

It’s also a week to set us up for a new start: a year where we can resolve to consume less. By buying less. By buying better: items with longer-lasting quality, products with a high ratio of recycled content and products that are circular. These can be designed to be recyclable, so they can either be downcycled, or even better be regenerated to a raw material or equal quality than virgin material. Biodegradable options are also super easy on the environment.

I love the newly introduced footwear recycling program by TreadLightly. You can now take your worn-out safety boots to workwear and safety supply outlets such as Hippocket Australia, Access Workwear and Safety, Worklocker outlets in Australia and many other safety footwear retailers.

See the full list of collection points at www.treadlightly.casga.com.au