Nike, The World's Largest Sports Company, Works to Reduce Waste in Factories and Will Resell Slightly Used Shoes with Minor Defects

Nike, The World’s Largest Sports Company, Works to Reduce Waste in Factories and Will Resell Slightly Used Shoes with Minor Defects

Written by Flavia Marinho

Published on 13/04/2021 at 10:04

Updated on 13/04/2021 at 10:59

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To Reduce Production Waste in Factories, Nike Will Also Sell Used Shoes or Those with Minor Manufacturing Defects

The American Nike, part of that rare group of multinationals renowned for revolutionizing their respective industries, works and innovates to reduce waste in factories and will start selling used shoes or those with minor manufacturing defects under a service called “Nike Refurbished.”

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The service is already available in some stores in the United States and will soon be in 15 locations. The American multinational presents the initiative as an example of a circular economy.

Nike’s idea is to recover shoes returned by customers within 60 days of purchase, inspect them, and if the products can still be sold, they will be refurbished and manually disinfected.

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Nike, The World’s Largest Sports Company, Works to Reduce Waste in Factories and Will Resell Slightly Used Shoes with Minor Defects

To Reduce Production Waste in Factories, Nike Will Also Sell Used Shoes or Those with Minor Manufacturing Defects

Read Also

Million-Dollar Investment in the Northeast: New Factory to Produce Mizuno Sneakers Will Generate Three Thousand Jobs in Ceará

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Nike, The World’s Largest Sports Company, Works to Reduce Waste in Factories and Will Resell Slightly Used Shoes with Minor Defects

To Reduce Production Waste in Factories, Nike Will Also Sell Used Shoes or Those with Minor Manufacturing Defects

Read Also

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With billions in loans, China is rebuilding Nigeria’s railway network from scratch, abandoning the British colonial tracks that have turned to scrap and creating a corridor of over 1,300 km to take the load off the roads of Africa’s largest economy.

China is building an artificial island in the middle of the sea, covering 20 km², to construct the largest offshore airport in the world, the Dalian Jinzhouwan. This $4.3 billion project is anchored on more than 3,000 pillars embedded in the rock beneath the ocean and is scheduled to open in 2035.

Forget petroleum-based asphalt: a Scottish company transforms 684,000 plastic bottles into one kilometer of road that is 60% more resistant and up to 10 times more durable, and the technology has already started replacing traditional asphalt in more than 30 countries.

Austrian engineers have developed an inflatable concrete technology that transforms flat slabs into domes using only air pressure, eliminating scaffolding and temporary forms, and potentially changing the way bridges, tunnels, and curved roofs are constructed worldwide.

A robot named Walter does the work of five bricklayers per hour and can save the construction industry, where the average age of professionals is 46 years and almost no one wants to learn the trade anymore, in the United Kingdom.

A British company has installed in the middle of the ocean the world’s first floating platform that generates electricity 24 hours a day from the temperature difference between the surface and the depths of the Atlantic, without relying on wind or sun.

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