Detroit Treads Mud Mats

To create a unique stylish and sustainable sandal that affords wearers a comfortable way to express their detroit pride while empowering ccss workers to gain vital skills.

Detroit treads mud mats.

Twelve formerly homeless men are employed in this program. Detroit treads sandals are being made by the cass community social services from illegally dumped tires in the city of detroit and providing jobs for local labor to do it. Detroit treads will also utilize student volunteers from across the state and country that will be trained and supervised by the at risk youth employed by green industries. De tread applies a two prong methodology to eradicating the issues of post consumer tire waste and tire blight.

Mud mats may be purchased from our online store or by calling 313 883 2277 ext 203. Since 2007 ccss has used more than 35 000 illegally dumped tires in detroit to make mud mats and the detroit treads sandals said the rev. Faith fowler the organization s executive director. Mud mats traditionally come with multicolored pieces in between tire treads.

And assisting them were around 35 volunteers from a phone company who pulled. Workers and volunteers were hard at work turning old tires into mud mats at cass community social services in detroit. Twelve formerly homeless men are employed in this program. The organization started making mud mats from the tires in 2007 and now the new detroit treads sandals.

To date cass has picked up over 30 000 tires from the streets of detroit. The smooth finish of go treads allows the snow and mud to shake off for easy cleaning. Volunteers collect on average about 200 tires an hour with each tire containing enough rubber to make three pairs of sandals. Yet with all this strength it weighs only 5 8 pounds and it floats.

Cass community social services collects illegally dumped tires from vacant lots in detroit and recycles them into indestructible mud mats. Go treads are made of flexible high strength high impact polypropylene copolymer with special additives to give this durable plastic even greater toughness. To date cass has picked up over 30 000 tires from the streets of detroit. Faith fowler the organization s executive director.

Post consumer tire waste is one of the biggest environmental problems that many everyday citizens are not aware of.