#hackyourjeans: How Old Denim Can Make Your Home Sustainable
Jeans never goes out of style. Even when your trousers are completely worn out, we make sure they’re here to stay. With the collection by Pieters Textiel we combine the timeless denim trend with sustainable solutions. EverJean is made in collaboration with ESG Green for #hackyourjeans and consists of almost 50% recycled denim.
Recycled denim
With the launch of Act for Home Textiles earlier this year, we already emphasised our care for sustainability. As part of that programme, we’re now launching EverJean as part of #hackyourjeans. #hackyourjeans is a sustainability project in collaboration with ESG Green, which spins yarns from recycled denim.
For the post-consumer recycled denim yarns, ESG Green strips jeans fabrics from all extra elements such as zippers and buttons, shreds them into fibres and spins them into new yarns. All yarns consist of up to 50% recycled denim and that’s a big high five for climate care.
Why?
- It saves water. A lot. For 1000 Towel2s, for example, we save half an Olympic swimming pool!
- We emit less CO2. With the amount of CO2 we save per 1000 Towel2s, you could drive all the way from Lisbon in Portugal to Athens in Greece.
- We don’t have to dye our fabrics. That’s a win-win situation, because it means we don’t have to use chemicals nor water.
So that elegant blue denim look and colour? All natural and made possible by your old jeans trousers.
EverJean
Pieters Textiel’s collaboration with ESG Green resulted in EverJean. The collection with mattress, headboard and boxspring fabrics is part of the company’s larger sustainable collection L.E.A.F. (short for Love Environment and Fabrics) and upgrades jeans from something wearable to something sleepable.
EverJean fabrics have the typical faded blue colour, but that’s not the only option. When intertwined with an ecological dope-dyed yarn, the fabrics get an authentic colour typical for this collection. Still sustainable, still jeans – just extra special.
Read more about EverJean collection here.