Comments on: Simple Shoes: A larger footprint than I expected http://www.cheapisexpensive.net/2009/07/30/simple-shoes-a-larger-footprint-than-i-expected/ The search for quality in things and in life Mon, 06 Feb 2012 17:34:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 By: admin http://www.cheapisexpensive.net/2009/07/30/simple-shoes-a-larger-footprint-than-i-expected/comment-page-1/#comment-5 admin Tue, 04 Aug 2009 20:22:57 +0000 http://www.cheapisexpensive.net/?p=51#comment-5 This just boggles my mind. The wealthiest woman in China got that way by making use of US trash. Is it not at least feasible for someone in the US to do the same? Does it not at least make sense? I saw a similar TV segment on how electronic waste almost invariably makes its way overseas for disassembling, despite the claims to the contrary of the US companies who are entrusted with the job of recycling it domestically. This just boggles my mind. The wealthiest woman in China got that way by making use of US trash. Is it not at least feasible for someone in the US to do the same? Does it not at least make sense?
I saw a similar TV segment on how electronic waste almost invariably makes its way overseas for disassembling, despite the claims to the contrary of the US companies who are entrusted with the job of recycling it domestically.

]]> By: Gaga http://www.cheapisexpensive.net/2009/07/30/simple-shoes-a-larger-footprint-than-i-expected/comment-page-1/#comment-4 Gaga Tue, 04 Aug 2009 04:17:16 +0000 http://www.cheapisexpensive.net/?p=51#comment-4 I think Simple Shoes is not alone in the world of large footprints. Several months ago, I read a New Yorker profile of Cheung Yan, known as China's Wastepaper Queen. She became the wealthiest woman in China by importing waste paper from the U.S. (for years rags, scrap and trash have served as ballast on empty ships returning to China after delivering goods being exported to the U.S.) She built factories to recycle our waste into paper and cartons to package (you guessed it) more Chinese manufactured goods for export. Simple Shoes' website indicates that their shoes are made in China in order to be close to suppliers of recycled products. My attempts at Google searches for recycled products made in this country only bring up consumer goods made of recycled materials, not the actual materials used in making them. It's pretty easy, though, to find Chinese companies that make things like sheets of recycled aluminum. Maybe we just don't know enough about what really happens to all the stuff we put into recycling bins here! I think Simple Shoes is not alone in the world of large footprints. Several months ago, I read a New Yorker profile of Cheung Yan, known as China’s Wastepaper Queen. She became the wealthiest woman in China by importing waste paper from the U.S. (for years rags, scrap and trash have served as ballast on empty ships returning to China after delivering goods being exported to the U.S.) She built factories to recycle our waste into paper and cartons to package (you guessed it) more Chinese manufactured goods for export.

Simple Shoes’ website indicates that their shoes are made in China in order to be close to suppliers of recycled products. My attempts at Google searches for recycled products made in this country only bring up consumer goods made of recycled materials, not the actual materials used in making them. It’s pretty easy, though, to find Chinese companies that make things like sheets of recycled aluminum.

Maybe we just don’t know enough about what really happens to all the stuff we put into recycling bins here!

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