From Garbage Collection to Nike

While deviating from my search on Garbage Collection and changing search terms to gauge how far from the subject can I go, I came across this interesting article that talks about Nike's plans regarding Manufacturing-Waste Management. This press release from Nikebiz.com indicates they have found an innovative way to create, what they describe as a performance product, with waste materials. The new Nike's Trash Talk seems to be the product of a partnership between Steve Nash and the shoe-maker. The website says that Trash Talk is the first performance basketball shoe made from manufacturing waste. The shoe is made of scrap pieces of leather and synthetic leather stitched using Zig-Zag stitching so as to put smallest possible scrap pieces to a good use. Read more here. The reason that this story made way into this blog was that I amused by the way a search for Garbage Collection eventually ended up with shoes and Nike. This also brought back memories of my childhood days when I often played with slippers made out of sticking together pieces of paper. Besides, amazing waste management strategy from Nike.