It's EarthMonth. Check out this edition of Hiring Heidi all about shoe repair--getting old shoes repaired can help cut down on both your spending and your trash.
TUCSON, Ariz. — April is Earth Month, a time that might get a lot of us thinking about how to reduce the amount of garbage we send to landfills. That can begin with a simple change of behavior: Buy less and re-use what you already have.
An easy place to start is by looking at your footwear. Americans create a large amount of waste each year discarding old clothes and shoes. So I thought I'd try a job that helps people breathe new life into the shoes they already have. My workday as a cobbler at Alpine Boot and Shoe Repair started right away—they put me straight to work.It's done by machine. Learning how to operate the equipment was a task in and of itself.
I think I got the hang of it pretty quickly. Too quickly maybe—just as I started 'nailing' it, it was time to moved onto a new task and new machine.I learned a big part of this job is taking an old shoe and making it new again. Seeing the shoes I was working on come back to life was like doing a magic trick.If you couldn't tell, this was a job that suited me—and Alpine Boot and Shoe Repair thought so too! I'm hired.Heidi Alagha is an anchor and reporter for KGUN 9.
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