Jean Drive

As thinking about what to do to help save Wisconsin from more trash, what first came to mind was clothes. Everybody has stuff in their closet that they don't wear but don't throw away. Doing more research, we found out that you can turn old jeans into insulation. We decided to run a jean drive. Old recycled jeans is a new wave hit for green home building projects. The stuff is comparable to traditional figerglass insulation but without the health and environmental concerns. When using jeans as insulation, they do not contain the toxic formaldehyde backing in fiberglass, the manufacturing process is no where near as energy as intensive, it has a higher insulation value per inch than fiberglass, it's LEED certified, and it removes toxins and carcinogens from the air, which both trigger asthma and allergies. We're still deciding who to partner with however. Habitat for Humanity is our go-to organization simply because they build new green homes. But we have to get a way to get people to donate their old jeans so we're also looking into a closing store as a sponsor as well.