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Life Cycle of Levi Jeans

Disposal

Recycle

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By Sam

• reuse old jeans as building insulation and other materials

•For instance, we installed recycled denim insulation from Bonded Logic, Inc

Production Factory Mill

Land Fill

•The average person in the U.S. throws away 68 pounds of clothing and textiles a year

  • Largest mill suppliers of Levi are in Mexico contains water treatment plants

  • Recycle approximately 75% of its water and direct it to other production processes, rest rooms and landscape irrigation.

• "Levi Strauss & Co. has been a leading partner to NRDC’s Responsible Sourcing Initiative in China and Bangladesh. By working together we will improve sustainability and energy efficiency throughout fabric mills and dye houses."

Linda Greer, Director of Environment and Health Programs, National Resources Defense Council

Production Cut and sew

•All workers receiver a Social and Environmental Sustainability (SES) Guidebook, which all our suppliers receive in their local language.

• Terms of Engagement spell out labor, health and safety, and environmental requirements. It is based on United Nations documents such as the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and International Labor Organization (ILO) Core Conventions.

Others

•Over 3,000 liters of water are used during the full product life cycle of a single pair of 501 jeans, from the cotton production and manufacturing process to keeping the jeans clean.

•45% of the water used in the lifecycle of a pair of 501 jeans occurs during the wash-and-dry home care by the customer.

Distribution

Extraction

  • greenhouse gas emissions in some of the shipping lanes reduced by 50-60% in 2008 by switching to intermodal transport (a mix of rail and truck) for U.S.

  • in 2009 we were able to reduce our carbon emissions by more than 700 metric tons and save money while continuing to meet our delivery deadlines.

•95% of their product is made of cotton

•Levi created partnership with BCL (better cotton initiative) group.

Consumption

  • 58% of the energy and 45% of the water used during the lifetime of a pair of Levi’s ® jeans occurs during the consumer use phase

  • For consumer increase lifespan of jeans by using cold water to wash than hot.

Distribution Retail

•Since 2006, we’ve reduced energy use in our U.S. retail stores U.S. by nearly 7%.

•employing new, high-efficiency lighting systems that yield aggregate energy savings of anywhere from 20% to 40%.

•This store installed lighting that is 35% more energy efficient than that used in our average retail store.

•Lighting is responsible for about 70% of the energy use in our retail operations. The new lights are expected to save from 30% to 50% of total lighting energy use and aggregate energy savings of 20% to 40%, since they will decrease summer cooling needs.

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