| 20090170697 | PROCESS OF MAKING AN ABSORBENT MATERIAL FROM WASTE GOODS AND THE PRODUCT OF THE PROCESS - A process of making an absorbent. The process is comprised of sorting footwear into categories, proportionally mixing the categories of footwear, shredding the footwear, and removing metal and chromate from the footwear. Embodiments of the categories are women's regular, women's dark, men's, children's, tennis, and winter boot footwear. The footwear may be shredded to a first predetermined size and then the metal may be removed. The footwear with the metal removed may then be again shredded to a second predetermined size, which is smaller than the first predetermined size, and the chromate may be removed. Alternatively, the footwear may be shredded to the second predetermined size and both the metal and chromate may be removed. | 07-02-2009 |
