The shoes were passed onto Dow's subcontractor, #YokImpexPteLtd, who sent them hopping from island to island throughout Indonesia, until they ended up in junk-markets.

Not all the shoes, though - one pair was simply moved from Dow's collection bin to a donation bin at a Singaporean community center. Of the 11 pairs that Reuters tracked, not one ended up at a recycling facility. So much for Dow's slogan: "Others see an old shoe. We see the future."

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