It takes more than denim to make a pair of jeansđź‘–
From growing cotton and producing denim to transport and washing, a single pair of Levi’s 501 jeans uses approximately 3,800 litres of water across its lifecycle.
That’s enough drinking water for 500 people for almost four days.
Water is woven into everything we wear.
Source: Levi Strauss & Co., The Life Cycle of a Jean (2015).
- It takes more than denim to make a pair of jeans👖 From growing cotton and producing denim to transport and washing, a single pair of Levi’s 501 jeans uses approximately 3,800 litres of water across its lifecycle. That’s enough drinking water for 500 people for almost four days. Water is woven into everything we wear. Source: Levi Strauss & Co., The Life Cycle of a Jean (2015).
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Does the jean consume the water permanently? Is the water lost forever or does it just go down the drain back into circulation? Are the world’s oceans drying up because of all of us daring to wash our clothes? Can we stop being morons about topics like this?
