When you wear the newest pair of Levi’s, you’ll also be wearing someone’s old Levis: they’re partially made from old, recycled jeans. They’re also fully circular: When they eventually wear out, they ...

Muji is taking a step forward to help close the loop. The Japanese retailer is partnering with Cotton Incorporated’s Blue Jeans Go Green program to collect and recycle denim. Consumers can bring ...

The project was the brainchild of the Amsterdam-based Denim Deal, a global pact between brands, recyclers and manufacturers that aims to make circularity the industry standard by ...

We like where the recycling trend is going. First plastic bottles were turned into fleece jackets, next came bikinis (restoring our commitment to filling our blue bin). And just when we thought it ...

Reuse Jeans, an eco-friendly denim company with its flagship shop in Laguna Beach, started when owner George Powell’s son, Luke, asked him a good question. “We were taking bottles and cans to the ...

If you buy this new blue dress from H&M once it hits stores in March, it might be made in part from a pair of jeans that you recycled last year. The retailer is the first to use a new material called ...

Jeans are one of those things that you just can’t—OK, don’t want to—live without. But it turns out, they’re total crap for the environment. It reportedly takes 2,000 gallons of water to manufacture ...

The fashion industry has a very well-known waste problem. Almost all (roughly 97%) of clothing eventually ends up in a landfill, according to McKinsey, and it doesn't take very long for the lifecycle ...

This month, denim brand DL1961 will show how old clothes and scraps can be turned into a new pair of jeans at the Frieze in London on May 27th and May 28th. The New York-based brand is aiming to build ...

March 31, 2012 Add as a preferred source on Google Add as a preferred source on Google If you have a pair of jeans that is beyond repair you can repurpose them into a gardening (or other activity) ...

Since Levi's was founded in the mid-1800s, it's been an innovative brand — and it's tried to keep things cutting-edge since. In the past year, for example, the brand used customer feedback to improve ...