A brilliant new brand is looking for support! The clothing company I Am Not A Virgin creates clothes using old brown beer bottles, recycled food trays, clear water bottles and virgin cotton to produce jeans and t-shirts. The bottles and trays are broken down into a fine particles, melted, and extruded into fiber. Using a mix of 25 percent bottle fiber and 75 percent cotton, the resulting material is soft to the hand, yet is durable and performs as denim should. It doesn't say but I guess the jeans will not smell of beer. Before you take them to the pub that is.
A couple of recycle facts from their website:
It takes 1 million years for a bottle to break down in landfill and if all jeans sold in the US alone were produced using our green technology, approximately 1,200,000 barrels of oil could be saved yearly.
We will eventually have different lines of jeans made from green soda bottles, blue water bottles, and my original idea of using fabric scraps collected at the manufacturing mills but first we need your help to start the production this summer.
The company needs support to get the production started in a way that benefits all. You can back up one (or more) of the projects but only if they have raised enough to start producing, you will pay and receive the -by you- back uped item! So you can't really loose! As we say in Holland (although it may be made up by myself to justify any unnecessary purchases): "You would be a thief of your own wallet" not to participate!
By the way the name I Am Not A Virgin comes from the fact that the material used to create the jeans is non-virgin, recycled material. So there will be no physical assessment conducted before you can buy one, in case you were wondering... (And don't believe any salesmen who claims otherwise!)
More info:
I am not a virgin- jeans
