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Levi's Made The First Ever 100%-Recycled Cotton Jeans

''This newest pair of Levi's started as five old T-shirts. Using a new fabric-recycling technology, Seattle-based startup Evrnu worked with Levi's to dissolve the used clothing into a new, high-quality thread. That thread was then used to make the new pants. It's a process that could ultimately start to replace water-intensive cotton grown in the field with cotton saved from discarded clothes.

In the past, recycling clothing has usually involved just "downcycling" it into something of lower value. Jeans, for example, might end up as insulation in a building. But it hasn't really been possible to turn old cotton into something good enough to make a brand-new garment out of...''

by ADELE PETERS