recycle/waterbottles into blueJeans? whaddaThink?

Interesting ?- Any thoughts ?

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/09/dirtball-fashion_n_4065816.html
How do you get more American than blue jeans? How about making them in America, for starters. That's what the eco-friendly fashion company Dirtball is doing with its new line of denim, which will be made entirely in the USA.

The blue jean has a green twist, as well. Dirtball CEO Joe Fox brags that the jeans are eco-friendly since they're made out of recycled water bottles (and cotton). The Green Jean just hit its funding target on Kickstarter.

A former racecar driver, Fox decided to make his idea for an eco-friendly clothing line a reality in 2008 after having a few too many drinks at a bar, he said. He estimates that with every 100,000 pairs of jeans made, Dirtball -- which also makes shirts, hoodies, socks, polos and shorts -- saves about 900,000 water bottles from being dumped into landfills.

The majority of Dirtball's products are also made within 200 miles of its headquarters in Hickory, N.C., allowing the company to cutdown on shipping costs, Fox told The Huffington Post.

"By lowering cost, that means I have more money to put towards labor. And labor means I get to hire Americans... I'd rather hire people to make a shirt than pay a company to transport my goods and use more oil.

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If this can keep jobs in America, and put good use to the million water bottles being dumped into landfills,,,,what could be the downside? Anyone??
jack

 

:rofl:

 

I know,, ..,I betcha a lot more bad ideas come from 2 guys gettin drunk in a bar than good ones-
Sounds like these 2 had a winner though- :cheers2:

 

Ill stick with what I got. But some will want to walk around looking like a dirtball.

 

Doesn't seem like those things would fare too well in a fire, but I guess neither would most man-made materials.

 

they already use that plastic to make fleece pants and jackets....adding cotton would probably work just as good and maybe even feel softer