{"id":11496,"date":"2026-03-25T08:26:31","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T07:26:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.esorecycling.it\/?p=11496"},"modified":"2026-03-25T10:41:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T09:41:11","slug":"old-shoes-to-safety-surfaces-esorecycling-poste-italiane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.esorecycling.it\/en\/news\/old-shoes-to-safety-surfaces-esorecycling-poste-italiane\/","title":{"rendered":"Old Shoes, New Purpose: Eso Recycling turns used footwear into shock-absorbing surfaces"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"gadget-text\">\n<p>The project <strong>\u201cOld shoes, new purpose\u201d<\/strong>, featured in the <strong>TG Poste broadcast on March 19<\/strong>, represents a concrete example of circular economy applied to end-of-life material management.<\/p>\n<p>A key element of the initiative is the contribution of <strong>Eso Recycling<\/strong>, a company specialized in the recovery and valorization of complex waste, which managed the recycling process of worn-out footwear used by <strong>Poste Italiane<\/strong> mail carriers.<\/p>\n<p>Once collected, the worn soles are sent to an industrial process that transforms them into <strong>shock-absorbing flooring<\/strong> designed for the play areas of the Postebimbi corporate nursery.<\/p>\n<p>The result is a product that is <strong>safe, durable, and sustainable<\/strong>, created to improve the quality of spaces dedicated to children.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The initiative makes it possible to:<\/strong><br \/>\n\u2022 significantly reduce waste sent for disposal<br \/>\n\u2022 recover materials and transform them into new resources<br \/>\n\u2022 generate a positive environmental and social impact<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTransforming waste into a resource is at the core of our work. Projects like this demonstrate how the circular economy can deliver tangible benefits for both people and the environment,\u201d comments <strong>Eso Recycling<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to strategic collaborations with major companies, <strong>Eso Recycling<\/strong> continues to develop innovative solutions for material recovery, actively contributing to the spread of sustainable and responsible models.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a style=\"display: inline-block; background-color: #0056b3; color: white; padding: 12px 24px; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; border-radius: 5px;\" href=\"https:\/\/tgposte.poste.it\/tgposte\/2026\/03\/19\/tg-poste-del-19-marzo-2026\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u25b6 Watch the full report on TG Poste<br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The project \u201cOld shoes, new purpose\u201d, featured in &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":11486,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[145],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esorecycling.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esorecycling.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esorecycling.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esorecycling.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esorecycling.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11496"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.esorecycling.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11496\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11507,"href":"https:\/\/www.esorecycling.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11496\/revisions\/11507"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esorecycling.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esorecycling.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esorecycling.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esorecycling.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}