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Unwanted trainers to be collected from running events to tackle waste

Source: PA Archive

Unwanted trainers will be collected from participants at the London Marathon Running Show in a bid to tackle the number of shoes ending up in landfill.

London Marathon Events (LME) will be supporting the running shoe collection campaign JogOn to collect unwanted trainers at its running events.

Estimates suggest more than three million shoes end up in landfill each

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