| Could Your Next Pair of Jeans Be Made from Recycled Water Bottles? Carly Milne - TakePart | |
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"The Green Jean" 100% Made in the U.S.A., Eco-Friendly Denim (Dirtball)
Sure it's convenient, but bottled water has a lot of problems—plastic waste being paramount. But an innovative clothing company has come up with a pretty cool way to use all of your old plastic: turning bottles into jeans.
Dirtball, a North Carolina-based sustainable fashion company has launched a Kickstarter campaign to help them create the plastic-based denim.
“There are 42 million plastic bottles that go into landfills in North Carolina alone,” says Dirtball founder Joe Fox. “And our brand launched with t-shirts, socks, polos, hoodies, sweatshirts and a whole line using plastic bottles in our fabric, but we decided to kick up our game. Besides, everyone loves jeans.”
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