While automakers like Ford continue to make improvements in fuel efficiency, they are always looking for other ways to reduce a vehicle’s environmental footprint. One way to do this is by using ...

Giving Materials Memory” enables denim to be authenticated, traced & reintroduced as a higher-value, verifiable input for reuse and recycling NEW YORK CITY, NEW YORK / ACCESS Newswire / December 30, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

What do you do when you’re sitting on a pile of old wide legs jeans that just aren’t in fashion anymore? Well if you’re designer Hyun Gun Jang, you tailor them into gorgeous geometric dresses. Who ...

Last year, for my birthday, my husband gave me a personalized license plate. It read Q-RENEW. The Q is obviously for Quimby and the word "renew" is how I look at stuff that surrounds me every day.

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) ...

I worked on the unit 'recycled fashion' as one of my AS level Art and Design units. I experimented with various textures, materials, and clothing types (e.g. I made a dress purely out of ties, and a ...