Greenbees' Eco-Chic Footwear Puts Discarded Tires Back to Work

Published Aug. 5, 2009 at 2:40 p.m.
Photo credit: GreenbeesJanel Garcia and her cousin, Irene Clancy, spent the summers of their childhood perched lazily on a tire swing, whittling away the hours beneath a cool green canopy and a searing azure sky. Eager to recapture the simple pleasures of their youth for their own brood, the now-grown Garcia and Clancy set off to find a pair of discarded tires, only to discover, to their enormous dismay, mountains upon mountains of landfilled junk. No American child will ever be in want of a tire swing, it would seem. After all, the United States produced 290 million scrap tires in 2003 alone, according to the


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