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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Did you know that the average American throws away approximately 70 pounds of clothing and other textiles each year? Textile waste including denim, which is made from biodegradable cotton, takes up ...

Nudie Jeans continues its venture into home goods with another installment of its Recycle Denim initiative. And this time around, the Swedish brand tapped into its country’s favorite pastime: camping.

Generally when I blow through a pair of denim, I just toss it out and never think of it again. But apparently, that pair of old, shredded jeans can be ground down to a pulp and reconstituted into a ...

Homeboy Electronics Recycling workers dismantle equipment in the company's facility in Commerce. Guess Inc.’s partnership with a local nonprofit is providing a second life for used clothing and ...

Ford is using recycled cottons in the interior of the new 2012 Focus as part of carpet backing and sound absorption material. Cotton from post-consumer, recycled blue jeans is used in areas such as ...

Two of our Sustainability Ambassadors, Erin Deasy and Catherine Chervenak, are hosting a jeans drive. The blue jeans will be donated to Blue Jeans Go Green, an organization that repurposes old blue ...