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Life Cycle of a Pair of Jeans

By: Alyssa Flores and

Mauricio Gonzalez

Disposal of the Product

Inputs:

  • Thrown away
  • Sold in garage sales
  • Sold or given to secondhand clothing stores
  • Given down to family members

Outputs

  • solid waste
  • increasing the consumption and spending for new clothes
  • however, also decreases this need through the second hand clothing options available.

3.

Production of the Materials and Parts

4.

Inputs

  • Use of a cotton gin
  • takes all of the sharp parts out
  • Spinning and weaving
  • Dyeing
  • Garment production
  • woven into the parts of a jean
  • All of these steps require energy through electricity in order to power all of these machines as well as human labor in order to run the production.

Use of the Product

1.

Outputs:

  • energy consumption, dust, waste material
  • bleaching/reductive agents, waste water, energy
  • solid waste, dust, labor conditions, acetate (labels)

Inputs

  • man power
  • folding, stacking, labeling
  • putting tags on jeans (labeling)
  • requires paper and plastic
  • cardboard required
  • jeans are placed in cardboard boxes
  • wood required
  • the cardboard boxes are then placed in wooden crates
  • shipping
  • gas required
  • trucks, ships, airplanes

Extraction of Raw Materials

Outputs

  • emission of greenhouse gases
  • solid waste
  • labor conditions

2.

Inputs:

  • Water Required
  • Cotton required
  • Copper and Zinc are required
  • Gas required to mine
  • Man power required for mining

Outputs

  • Pollution
  • Emission of greenhouse gases
  • Erosion

Redesign

We believe that in our society today as Americans, we have grown too accustomed to the cycle of simply purchasing whatever we desire, and once we are done with it, it simply goes to a place called "away". Rather than throwing our jeans in the trash, we must educate the public on the importance and trendiness of recycling our jeans. We must seek to make recycling and repurposing as beneficial as possible to consumers. We believe that in order to do so, we must educate the public. Most of them are not aware of the various purposes jeans possess. If they recycle, the materials within jeans can be used towards another article of clothing without emitting more toxic chemicals as well as wasting even more water. We also believe that we can redesign the typical pair of jeans by recycling the amount of water necessary to construct and dye the jeans. We can also increase the sustainability of jeans by constructing jeans with ready-to-use recycled fragments from previously recycled jeans. By reducing the need for scarce raw materials, it not only reduces the carbon and waste footprint of the majority of Americans who wear jeans, but money will essentially be saved as well.

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