Could Your Next Pair of Jeans Be Made From Recycled Water Bottles?

[BlueToTheBone]

http://www.takepart.com/article/2013/09/13/jeans-made-from-recycled-water-bottles?cmpid=tpenviro-eml-2013-09-14-jeans


This was in my email today and I think it's a great idea.

Sure it's convenient, but bottled water has a lot of problems—plastic waste being paramount. But an innovative clothing company has come up with a pretty cool way to use all of your old plastic: turning bottles into jeans.

Dirtball, a North Carolina-based sustainable fashion company has launched a Kickstarter campaign to help them create the plastic-based denim.

“There are 42 million plastic bottles that go into landfills in North Carolina alone,” says Dirtball founder Joe Fox. “And our brand launched with t-shirts, socks, polos, hoodies, sweatshirts and a whole line using plastic bottles in our fabric, but we decided to kick up our game. Besides, everyone loves jeans.”

Dirtball isn't the only company using recycled materials to create clothing. Puma and Nike have shoe lines using old rubber tires, New Balance has a shoe called Nimbus made from plastic bottles and recycled wool, Loomstate makes t-shirts using 50% recycled plastic, and Nau incorporates reusable fibers like coconut husk in their line.

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[msongs]

1. this will remind us why most jeans are made of cotton lol nt

[Igel]

3. Soda bottles are PET.

Polyester is PET.

That recycle symbol with a "1" in it.

[OneGrassRoot]

2. K&R n/t

[thatgemguy]

4. I'd prefer jeans made from hemp fiber n/t