Happy Earth Day!

Did you know that you can recycle shoes, racquets, and tennis balls at 40 Love?

40 Love has a collection bin for Reuse Your Shoes. Bucks County native, Kevin Kane, started Reuse Your Shoes in the fall after noticing how many running shoes that his marathon runner wife had acquired that were no longer suitable for running. Since then this wonderful organization has grown by leaps and bounds and is collecting over 500 pairs of shoes a month. Reuse Your Shoes has arrangements to donate all gently worn shoes to the Red Cross for disaster relief, Soles4Souls, A Women’s Place for abused women and families. Any shoes deemed beyond “usable” are forwarded to Nike for their shredding program which transforms shoes into playground base material.


Racquets collected at 40 Love are donated to Arthur Ashe Youth and Tennis Education. According to their website, "The mission of Arthur Ashe Youth Tennis and Education is to create opportunities for a diverse cross-section of young people, especially those from low-income families and communities, to make positive choices in their lives, remain in and succeed in school, reject violence and other risky behaviors, and grow into active, responsible and productive citizens. We work to achieve these goals through innovative tennis instruction, education, life skills, and leadership development programming in neighborhoods throughout the Philadelphia area and at the Arthur Ashe Youth Tennis and Education Center." 40 Love is proud collect racquets in support of this local program.

40 Love collects tennis balls and distributes them to local schools and nursing homes. We also give tennis balls to our furry friends in Doylestown. The dogs love the free tennis ball and it is a great way to reuse them. The excess of tennis balls collected are sent to Rebounces to be re-pressurized and reused.

Happy Earth Day everyone!