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This might be too optimistically naive, but I wonder if they’re treating the shoes as a commodity. Like, for every 1000 shoes in Dow collection bins, they’re using 1000 shoes in the recycling-to-sports-surfaces projects, but they’re not the same shoes. Hopefully they’re the more worn-out shoes, and thats why the nicer shoes ‘donated’ for this article were not used.