Did you know that the average American throws away approximately 70 pounds of clothing and other textiles each year? Textile waste including denim, which is made from biodegradable cotton, takes up ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Muji is taking a step forward to help close the loop. The Japanese retailer is partnering with Cotton Incorporated’s Blue Jeans Go ...

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 ...

When Mud Jeans set out to change the fashion industry eight years ago, denim’s position as an ecological offender made it a prime target. Jeans are highly resource-heavy garments, consuming 1,850 ...

Two years later, the Ellen MacArthur Foundation’s Jeans Redesign project is gaining another influential participant: Turkish denim mill Isko. The mill recently announced that it would join the ...

Since Levi's was founded in the mid-1800s, it's been an innovative brand — and it's tried to keep things cutting-edge since. In the past year, for example, the brand used customer feedback to improve ...

When you wear the newest pair of Levi’s, you’ll also be wearing someone’s old Levis: they’re partially made from old, recycled jeans. They’re also fully circular: When they eventually wear out, they ...

Generally when I blow through a pair of denim, I just toss it out and never think of it again. But apparently, that pair of old, shredded jeans can be ground down to a pulp and reconstituted into a ...

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 ...

Mud Jeans is scaling its use of recycled cotton from pre-owned jeans. Last week the circular brand launched new two jeans made with 55 percent post-consumer recycled cotton sourced through its ...