cast off clothing

Any type of shoe abuse. Broken heels, well worn shoes, scuffed shoes, torn shoes, shoes run over by cars, shoes dragged on the ground, crinkled pointy toes, shoes sawed in half, shoes run over by cars, lost shoes, shoe trees, trample, crush, etc. Any other discussion or photos having to do with shoes, boots or other footwear, abused or not, is welcome.

Alle Arten von Schuh-Missbrauch. Abgebrochene Absätze, sehr getragene, abgenutzte, verschlissene, zerissene, überfahrene Schuhe. Schuhe über den Boden gerschliffen, zerknitterte Schuhspitzen, zersägte, plattgetretene, zerquetschte Schuhe, verlorene Schuhe, Schuhbäume etc. Jede andere Diskussion oder Fotos im Zusammenhang mit Schuhen oder Stiefeln oder andere Arten von Schuhen, missbraucht oder nicht, ist willkommen.

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cast off clothing

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I came across an article on the web about a town in Hungary that processes used clothes. It states that winter clothes, and boots are not sent to hot climate countries but are transformed into briquettes and burnt at a cement factory. OK how do you make clothing briquettes. At first I was thinking that the clothes and boots would be soaked in water binder and fed into a powerful compactor that would squeeze a cubic meter of winter clothing into a block the size of a brick. I was picturing a brick where you could see the outline of a flattened out high heel shoe embedded in it.
Then I read that a machine with iron teeth destroys the leftovers so I guess the stuff is shredded and then compacted into bricks. Here is the article.
http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-36498061

More shoes to energy
http://sustainablog.org/2015/08/recycle ... r-burning/
recycle-shoes-into-fuel.jpg
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Re: cast off clothing

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Very interesting. Thank you for sharing.
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