Earth Day 2021 - The Shoe Industry - Environmental impact

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Shoes are a product of everyday use that everyone in the world owns; there are more than 20 billion pairs of shoes manufactured each year. However, too much of anything isn’t good as there are many environmental impacts of shoe industry that cannot be ignored much longer. Shoe manufacturing and shoes in general poses many threats to the wellbeing of our planet as many toxins, chemicals and fossil fuels are produced and leaked into the environment during the first and last steps in the shoe life cycle (refer to the video on the homepage for more information on the shoe life cycle). These chemicals are harming both the wildlife and humans that come in contact with them, which, in turn, causes many health problems. Also, shoe manufacturing produces large amounts of carbon dioxide which contributes to the already serious effects of climate change and global warming.




(check out the photos below)
This is a picture of a shoe factory. As you can see, there is a large amount of carbon dioxide and other pollutants being pumped into our atmosphere. These greenhouse gases from the shoe industries are one of greatest contributors to global warming.

This is a photo of some of the left over materials that were simply tossed out by the factory as they are no longer needed. These unused parts also end up in landfills but what is shocking is that it is all new and unused.

This is an image of one of the sites where pollutants from the factories are dumped. It is full of toxic pollutants that are very harmful to the health of any organism.

 

It is very unfortunate, that industries are like this... All that plastic is probably gonna outlive us!