your headline has a spelling error. it’s ‘athletic’ and not ‘atheletic.’

also, what organization is accepting the shoe donations?

The man with the box says they’re being donated to City Sports which then gives them to Nike. Nike gives the usable ones to poor people in 3rd world countries and grinds up the bad ones to make playgrounds.

I was walking past the new field at Emory Rec this weekend – it is beautiful! Interestingly all the kids were playing on it without shoes. They were throwing a football around and there was a big pile of shoes off the field. Is there a reason that you can’t wear shoes on these new turf fields? It was really strange.