If you have shoes you want or need to get rid of, there are a ton of options. The very best thing you can do, obviously, is give the pair to someone who needs them. It could be a friend or family member, but you can also link up with any number of charities like Soles4Souls, which takes sneakers and shoes (in any condition) and finds a way to use them. If the shoes are brand new and you want to make some extra money, you can post them on eBay or Grailed and get a couple bucks back. Perhaps the worst thing you can do with them is just throw them in trash.But that's what Nike's new store in SoHo is doing: throwing seemingly brand new sneakers in the trash. The New York Times reports that Ryan D. Matzner found trash bags filled with sneakers outside Nike's SoHo store waiting to be picked up by trash collectors.You say you don't throw shoes away, but I saw your SoHo store do just that! /KjGZYTZNs2— Ryan D. Matzner (@rdm) January 27, 2017It's not bad enough that the store was just tossing the shoes out—if they were doing that, intrepid good Samaritans could snatch them up and distribute them to those in need, or sell them at a deep discount.
The employees at Nike's new store are slashing up the shoes to make them unwearable.Are you as disappointed by this as we are?We're going to give the company the benefit of the doubt for about five minutes, since we haven't seen an official statement from Nike that excuses this practice. Still, there's this: "A small amount of product at our Nike SoHo store did not meet our standards to restock, recycle, or donate so it was disposed of," Joy Davis Fair, Nike spokeswoman, told The New York Times. That's hardly an answer, and doesn't take into account the vast array of options available for anyone looking to get rid of pairs.There are a few legitimate, if unsophisticated, reasons to trash sneakers.The simplest possibility is that the store's policies dictate the shoes cannot be sold. If Nike doesn't want them to be swooped up and sold by someone else, or to have the brand's cachet injured by being on the feet of the homeless or poor, then they must be destroyed. It's doubtful that Nike is afraid of being seen on the poor since the company does a very good job of manufacturing accessibly priced sneakers, and has a history of giving away sneakers to those in need.
But it is a very real concern by many brands that others will profit off their work. This can all be solved through donation to a large charity that will handle all the product in an unbroken chain of possession.It's also possible that the store couldn't sell the product because it's defective. If we believe that no one should be wearing these shoes because the sole unit would do more harm than good, then, yes, they should be destroyed. But companies like Soles4Souls take shoes that are unwearable and pulp them, turning them into running tracks at schools in low-income communities. This isn't the same as recycling. Recycling is brand-to-brand and turns defective shoes into new shoes, and therefore requires a certain quality standard. When being pulped into a running track, that standard is much, much lower. The shoes don't have to be added to already-bloated landfills; they can be turned into something useful and valuable. The shoes don't have to be added to already-bloated landfills;
they can be turned into something useful and valuable.Nike is historically very responsive to issues like the one that the Times uncovered, so we're eagerly waiting to hear how it's going to change this policy. We're betting that Nike Corporate doesn't even have to get involved, and instead the store can take the initiative on its own, changing this behavior immediately. Either way, the current destruction of merchandise is inexcusable, and easy (and inexpensive) to fix—not to mention a great opportunity for positive PR.Until then, we'll wait. Op 13 december 2015 vond de 9e editie plaats van de Music Matters Award in Theater Zuidplein. Na een ware strijd te hebben geleverd werd de Rotterdamse rapper Monta uitgeroepen tot winnaar en mag zich daarmee muziekambassadeur van Rotterdam 2016 noemen. Feyenoord’s grootste fan won een stimuleringsprijs van 10.000 euro en zal een jaar lang worden begeleid door Music Matters. Monta wist de jury voor zich te winnen want volgens de jury ’beschikt Monta over een geweldige stem en flow en met zijn creatieve hiphop nummers zorgt hij ervoor dat ieder woord direct binnenkomt!
De rapper wint 10.000 euro om te investeren in zijn muzikale carrière en wordt een jaar lang professioneel begeleid. De jonge artiest gaf tijdens de jurygesprekken aan grote plannen te hebben en deze ook te kunnen realiseren wanneer hij de Award zou winnen. De Nederlandse MC Monta werd in 1989 geboren als Yannick Monteiro Cabral. De Rotterdamse rapper maakt voornamelijk creatieve hiphop nummers met een positieve boodschap. In 2011 deed Monta mee met de Helderheid Bokaal waar hij tot de finale kwam. In 2012 behaalde hij de finale plek bij Fanatics, won in 2013 de 010 Rookie Of The Year Award en stond datzelfde jaar in de finale van de Grote Prijs van Rotterdam. In 2015 won hij de RDM Sneaker Event Hiphop contest in Bird Rotterdam. Door zijn deelname aan de Grote Prijs van Rotterdam werd bij benaderd om deel te nemen aan diverse projecten en evenementen en begon hij met het geven van workshops. De Rotterdammer werkte o.a. samen met rappers als Vieira, Billyusuf, GMB, JR De Regel Neger, Camp Rauw (Strijder & Gazza) en PSL Persoonlijk.
In december 2014 bracht Monta zijn debuut EP ‘Dit is Monta’ uit in samenwerking met Eastgarden Music. Momenteel volgt de rapper de opleiding muzikant/producer op het Albeda College. Na het winnen van de Award heeft Monta besloten om door te willen gaan met zijn band Mothers Groovebox. De band bestaat uit de muzikanten Brenn Luiten, Joop de Graaf, Arjuna Vlasblok, Roy Stepzfam en natuurlijk rapper en vocalist Monta. Momenteel zijn ze bezig met hun eerste EP die in 2016 zal worden gereleased. Volg Monta via Facebook, Twitter, Instagram en Soundcloud. Op 13 december 2015 vond de 9e editie plaats van de Music Matters Award in Theater Zuidplein. Volg Monta via Facebook, Twitter, Instagram en Soundcloud. Unfortunately, we are unable to process your request at this time.Just a week after giving the NMD Runner a slick “Black Camo” makeover, adidas has dropped new iterations of the NMD_1 silhouette in three vicious new colorways. The pack contains three shoes featuring “Black/Chalk White,” “Lush Red/Black” and “Black/White” uppers, respectively, all of which sit on top of a white Boost sole with white plugs and tonal detailing.