Bonded Logic’s UltraTouch Natural Cotton Fiber Insulation offers a nontoxic alternative to fiberglass insulation. Spun, candy-floss-like, from 90 percent post-consumer denim fibers, UltraTouch is bereft of nasty substances like carcinogens, formaldehyde, and volatile organic compounds. (source: ecouterre.com)


by Cyan Rein is a limited collection of recycle Eden-denim corsets (both steel-and plasticboned)
designed to raise funds for Australia’s Children’s Medical Research Institute. This one’s a cinch: 15 percent of proceeds will go toward the prevention and treatment of childhood genetic disorders (source: ecouterre.com)


In 2009 2009, an Australian jean company introduced a range of high- and low-top sneakers crafted from preloved jeans. The denim label didn’t try to hide it, either. Fly buttons, belt loops, rivets, and watch pockets all garnered places of honor. (source: ecouterre.com)
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Drop off three pairs of worn-out jeans—plus ¥36,720 (US$400)—in the mail for Noyes in Japan and the sofa manufacturer will whip up a custom ottoman in three weeks. Lookie-loos can visit the company’s website for a step-by-step video of the process. (source: ecouterre)


hand-blends unwanted denim and post-consumer paper pulp to create its tree-free denim paper and notecards in a Green Field Paper natural stonewashed blue, of course. (source:ecouterre.com)