Australian Sporting Goods Association

It was great to meet The Hon Trevor Evans MP at The Athlete's Foot Chermside and chat about the TreadLightly shoe recycling program.

Thanks for your support Minister Evans and we look forward to working closely with Australian Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment to reach our recycling targets to keep millions of shoes ending up in landfill each year.

This week is ! To celebrate, we are proud to announce that the ASGA SOS Shoe Recycling Initiative has rebranded to TreadLightly. The new brand reflects a new national program with nearly 500 collection locations across more than 20 different brands.

As part of the national launch, we undertook new research around shoe habits, revealing Aussies are hoarding around 100 million unused shoes that could end up in landfill!

This research highlights a national problem and a significant environmental concern. TreadLightly exists to address this issue by taking unwanted sports and active lifestyle shoes and responsibly recycling them into mats and flooring for retail stores, gyms and playgrounds.

Read the full story here: https://treadlightly.asga.com.au/aussies-hoarding-unused-shoes-for-a-rainy-day/

We’re excited to announce that we’ve received an Australian Government grant to expand ASGA’s Save Our Soles footwear recycling program. This will enable us to achieve our sustainability objectives and do more to minimise waste in our industry.

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Tackling footwear waste from sneakers to football boots | Australian Sporting Goods Association 11 August, 2021 The ASGA Save Our Soles initiative – a program that recovers and recycles tired, unwanted sports shoes – has received an Australian Government grant through the National Product Stewardship Investment Fund (NPSIF), bringing the sporting goods industry one step closer to a sustain...

The Australian Sporting Goods Association has added to its depth of industry experience with the appointment of two new Directors to our Board. Kate Warwick, FTI Consulting and Daniel Vukadinovic , New Balance bring expertise and knowledge to the association.

Read our official media release here:

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: Victoria will enter a seven-day circuit breaker LOCKDOWN from 11.59pm tonight.
There will be just five reasons to leave home.

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Live COVID-19 updates: Follow the 9News blog throughout the day Welcome to the 9News.com.au live blog for Thursday, May 27, 2021. Melbourne is on edge after 11 new cases with fears the growing outbreak will develop into a deadly third wave.

Awesome result for the Sporting Schools Program to be extended in the 2021-22 Federal Budget. https://zcu.io/KzW6

Sport Australia welcomes extension of Sporting Schools program - Australasian Leisure Management Sport Australia has welcomed the Australian Government’s announcement in the 2021-22 Federal Budget to extend the Sporting Schools program.

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Through the ASGA SOS Footwear recycling program, we’ve collected and recycled over 100,000 sports shoes. To find out more about how our program is tackling the issue of waste through supply-chain sustainability, visit https://zcu.io/vWb0

ASGA has engaged Nielsen Sports to conduct a free webinar that will review the current sponsorship landscape.

The Sponsorship Landscape: 2020 in Review webinar will highlight Nielsen's unique syndicated research trends and performances of sponsorship in 2020, including data on:

- Consumers & sponsorship (attitudes, recall etc.)
- Sport & entertainment interests Media consumption (tv audiences etc.)
- Fan/consumer shopping behaviour
- Top-performing properties

Register on https://zcu.io/CtXf

The ASGA Save Our Soles Footwear Recycling Initiative program is gearing up to expand its collection network nationally. Our collection units are being packaged & shipped to partner locations across Australia.

We will be posting new collection locations on our website & socials. Check out https://zcu.io/skby for updates and further information.

SportAus has released a report that focuses on the early impact of COVID-19 on sport and physical activity participation. You can download the report on this link https://zcu.io/PWkp

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Decathlon automating warehouse operations to "more than double" productivity - Inside Retail Good-to-Person robots will move at one-metre-a-second to help workers fulfil 144 orders per hour.