Sustainable Denim Round Up: 17 Brands We Love
It’s no secret the denim industry is extremely resource intensive.
We’ve learned just how intensive in recent years, thanks to research by eco journalists and, notably, an article in WWD by Ross Tucker in which Levi Strauss & Co. publicly “shared results of its life cycle assessment on what went into making one pair of its iconic Levi’s 501 style.”
Levi’s being to jeans what Kleenex is to tissue, people were listening.
According to Tucker, Levi’s found that making one pair of 501’s requires almost 920 gallons of water and 400 megajoules of energy while expelling 32 kilograms of carbon …
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