Go Green! Recycle Your Jeans!

We don’t mean green jeans like the color of Kermit the frog.  By green jeans, we mean reduced, reused, or recycled denim. Yeah, like… paper, plastic, denim, aluminum…  Wait, what?  Bingo.  Recycled denim.

No matter how organic the cotton on your new jeans, no matter how environmentally friendly the denim company office practices, no matter the lengths a plant goes to in order to produce a green jean, the energy needed to create a new jean is still much more than the energy you’d be saving by finding a new, household use for an old pair that would otherwise be thrown in your wardrobe waste bin.

To us, being green when it comes to jeans doesn’t necessarily require purchasing anything at all.  You don’t even have to pay fifty cents for that pair of cutoffs at the Salvation Army reserved solely for your desperate housewives car wash drive or splurge on EBAY for those vintage jeans that just turn up on the side of a mountain in, oh, I don’t know, Reno somewhere.  No.  We’re talking about recycling your old jeans to help create a brighter future for denim!  Literally.

Ever wonder where we send returns?  Last year, indi diligently amassed a collection of denim scraps, returns, and sample swatches to donate to Cotton Inc’s COTTON. From Blue To Green.

The result was 150,000 of insulation helping Habitat for Humanity Volunteers build 12 new homes in

“the largest-scale, highest-profile, and biggest-budget rebuilding project to have gotten underway in New Orleans post-Katrina”.

Besides sending your old indi jeans back to us to recycle, there are tons of other ways to turn your old blue jeans green.  Here are just a few ideas we’ve come up with:
1.  Hand em’ down.  If you have a younger sister, or a boyfriend who wears tight jeans, you know what I’m talking about…
2.  Make a quilt
3.  Become this guy

We know that it’s not easy being green, but luckily for us, green is the new blue, baby, and we’re all for it!

posted by: Amy D on March 3, 2009 at 8:18 pm
filed under: Happenings at INDi | comments (7)
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On 04-24-2009, .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) said

Do you have an address I have 4 pair of Jeans to send your way

On 04-30-2009, .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) said

Hey Stephen,

Here’s our address:
indi
5515 Doyle St., Suite #15
Emeryville, CA 94608

Thank you so much for your participation in our jean drive.  Please spread the word!

On 09-04-2009, .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) said

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On 09-21-2009, .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) said

Are you still accepting jean donations?  I have quite a few pairs of unwearable jeans.

On 09-23-2009, .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) said

Hi Kit,

Thanks for your question! We are not currently accepting jean donations, but I found a place where you can donate your jeans:

http://www.fairindigo.com/recycle/

Thanks for recycling!

On 12-29-2009, .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) said

Looking for some place that is currently accepting jean donations.  Any info is appreciated!

On 12-29-2009, .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) said

Hi Kelley,

Fair Indigo is still accepting donations. More information is here:

http://www.fairindigo.com/recycle/

Take care!