It isn't clear to me that there is a significant environmental impact from producing jeans. The article itself says almost nothing. It quotes a Greenpeace rep

It isn't clear to me that there is a significant environmental impact from producing jeans. The article itself says almost nothing. It quotes a Greenpeace report, from 2010, that says that there is blue dust in the streets (oh no!), that dye is released into rivers (oh no?), and that producing one pair of jeans uses 3625 liters of water. (For comparison, producing a pound of beef takes 7000 liters of water, and a pound of almonds 4000 liters. [1]) [1] http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/10/13/food-water-footprint_n_5952862.html http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/10/13/food-water-footprin...