This paper provides a brief overview of the environmental impact of footwear industry and the end of life solutions. Nowadays almost 23 billion pairs of shoes are produced worldwide every year and most of them are landfilled after their use. Currently the lifetime of a pair of shoes is falling because of the customer preferences and the fast fashion trend at market and fashion industry. As a result, huge amounts of wastes are being landfilled. The aim of this paper is to analyses the environmental implications of shoes landfilling and incineration end-of-life scenarios. To achieve it, these two scenarios were applied in a life cycle assessment of a pair of shoes performed for this study.
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