And when lumped in with the overall textile stream, global recycling for footwear remains below 1 percent.
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Jennifer Bringle,
Footwear News,
3 June 2026
Which means a licensed clinical social worker with a decade of clinical experience, training in ethics and boundaries, and the ability to recognize a client in crisis gets lumped into the same category as someone who completed a weekend online certification.
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