The Cotton From Blue to Green Denim Drive began in 2006 as part of a marketing initiative for Cotton Incorporated. The denim collected around various college campuses, all across the country, is recycled into Ultra Touch natural cotton fiber insulation. This insulation is then donated to Habitat for Humanity homes, recently used in the Gulf Coast area of Hurricane Katrina. Five hundred pairs of jeans will insulate one home, and 1,333 pairs will divert one ton of waste from a landfill. To date, 270,617 pieces of denim have been donated and over 540 houses have been built with the Ultra Touch insulation. At the University of Kentucky, over 6,000 pairs of jeans were collected in the Fall of 2009, enough denim to insulate 12 homes! That also adds up to 4.5 tons of waste that was recycled! This year the Logan County Homemakers took part in collecting denim as part of this University project. The Homemakers were able to collect just under 200 pieces of denim to be donated from Logan County! They plan to collect throughout the year for next year's denim drive as well so hold on to your old denim! To find out more about the process of recycling the denim into insulation and the program's history, please check out the following website: www.cottonfrombluetogreen.org