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For me personally, nothing feels better than wearing a comfortable pair of jeans and a t-shirt on a cool fall day. Or wearing jeans with my favorite pair of Puma sneakers. Or wearing jeans with…anything! Most people would agree that the classic denim jean is one item of clothing that transcends time and place, and that’s why we have so many pairs of them.
Although you should give your jeans to a thrift store or charity organization like the Salvation Army or Goodwill when they no longer fit, some people just throw them away in the trash. Instead of adding to our nation’s landfill waste, how about trying this green alternative: recycle them.
Jeans can be used to make a multitude of things, from homemade pot holders and pet beds to purses and quilts, but one of the most amazing uses for recycled jeans is for home insulation. Since jeans are made out of 100% cotton, they are a great green alternative to traditional housing insulation. Plus, when used for insulation purposes, they get sprayed with fire-retardant chemicals, which make them fire, mildew and bug-resistant.
Check out how this medical center is using recycled jeans for wall insulation:
Recycled jean insulation is slowly becoming a popular trend for green home builders and eco friendly home owners. The concept sounded so good that it recently inspired the magazine National Geographic Kids to collect as many jeans as possible at Washington’s Union Station on April 12, 2009. The jeans were then donated to Cotton. From Blue to Green, a jean recycling organization that will use them to insulate over 60 homes throughout the DC area.
The magazine-sponsored event ended up collecting a whopping 30, 088 pairs of jeans, breaking the Guinness World Record for “Most Items of Clothing Collected for Recycling.” More than 1, 600 of those pairs of jeans were donated by 9-year-old Erek Hansen from Ohio, who organized a denim jean drive at his school! Check him out amidst a sea of jeans.
Now that you about the awesome power of recycling jeans, go get that 12-year-old pair of jeans with multiple holes in it and find out how you can recycle it for a good cause.
Resource: CantonRep.com
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