Levis Recycled Plastic Jeans

Simply box up your old denim make certain it s 90 cotton or greater and doesn t have any hangers tags stickers or plastic attached create or log in to your zappos or amazon account print a shipping label and send it our way by dropping it at a local ups store continental u s.

Levis recycled plastic jeans.

Recycled jeans can take on many new functions but your denim will be used specifically as materials for building insulation a portion of which will go towards community oriented projects such as libraries hospitals and schools. Your new levi s will now be part old recycled levi s the products use a new material called circulose that s made from reconstituted cotton from old jeans combined with wood pulp. That equates to about eight 12 20oz bottles per. The clothing and shoe recycling program is part of levi s larger sustainability initiative which is aiming for a circular economy by 2020 a scenario in which jeans and other apparel are.

That means about eight 12 to 20 ounce bottles are reborn. The best jeans for the planet are the ones you don t have to make. Shop the entire collection today. The company says at least 20 percent of the material that goes into making this denim comes from recycled plastic bottles and food trays.

Levi s answer was to create two fashion lines jeans and trucker jackets that incorporate at least 20 post consumer plastic recycled content. We estimate that selling a levi s authorized vintage pair of previously used 501 s uses 98 percent less water than making a new pair and cuts out more than half of the carbon footprint. With more worn levi s 501 jeans from the 50s to the 90s discarded every year there s an almost inexhaustible supply of not so raw material for l a based women s brand re dun.