Longest Chain of Shoes

We have read so many records like Longest line of cards,Longest line of tacos  etc but this one we are going to talk about is going to really surprise you.We are going to share about the unusual record of the Longest line of shoes.-National Geographic Kids magazine set a World Record Wednesday for the longest chain of shoes: more than 10,500 sneakers were tied together by their laces, heel to toe, measuring a total length of 1.65 miles.And much to say these more than ten thousand sneakers became  the cause of celebration for the students.
The magazine spent six months collecting sneakers sent by readers, families, Girl Scout and Boy Scout troops and schools. Actress Cameron Diaz and members of the U.S. Women's National Soccer Team also donated their old sneakers to the project. Assembled by National Geographic Kids magazine, the chain stretched 8,700 feet or about 1.65 miles.The shoes are part of a larger cause to encourage recycling and to reduce the amount of trash in landfills. The sneakers will be sent to Nike's Reuse-a-Shoe program, which recycles the shoes into material that can be used to build athletic surfaces: basketball courts, soccer fields, and playgrounds.
Editor in chief of the magazine Melina Bellows  was very much delighted by the thorough response she received for the project.
The kids gave an overwhelming response to the cause as it benefits the environment.Many communities also got together for a greener initiative and helped other kids to nurture this cause.
Shoes are made of mostly plastic and leather.Shoes get worn out after severe use and become unfit to wear in due course of time.In such circumstances it gets difficult to use them and are hence disposed off.These worn out shoes are then sent  to  one of the major sports shoes brand Nike who takes out the material from the shoes ,processes and utilises them to make athletic sports material.Shoes when discarded as waste can render much harm to the environment but when the materials are reused for something else then that leads to minimisation of discarded toxic waste in to the environment.Thus this initiative reduces the chances of environmental degradation.
The Longest Chain of shoes was set by National Geography Kids Magazine at Washington D.C,United States of America on July 2,2008.