Jeans: The dark side of denim

Look down: chances are fairly high that you're wearing a pair of jeans! With 2 billion pairs of jeans manufactured each year, denim is a stylish and comfortable staple of many people's closets. Yet jeans also have a dark side: their production uses enormous quantities of water and synthetic dyes, and raises both environmental and human rights concerns. 

Learn more about the impacts of your favorite pair of jeans in this episode with Laura Vicaria from MUD Jeans, the world's first circular denim brand. We'll discuss how jeans are made, their environmental repercussions, and the steps that we can take to ensure our next denim purchase is more sustainable.   

Check out MUD Jeans here: https://mudjeans.eu/

Other references: https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20200710-why-clothes-are-so-hard-to-recycle, https://www.glamourmagazine.co.uk/article/jeans-environmental-impact, https://ellenmacarthurfoundation.org/the-jeans-redesign

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