There's an amazing amount of resources and chemicals that go into manufacturing jeans.

Did you know that a single pair of (non-organic) jeans requires:

• 1,500 gallons of water (that’s over 1892 liters)
• 1, 5 pound of cotton (680 grams)
• about 1 pound (450 grams) of oil to run the farm equipment and the pesticide sprayers
• starch to size it (when dumped in waterways, bacteria eating up biodegradable starch depletes the oxygen needed by aquatic life
• oil-derived paraffin to smooth and lubricate
• caustic soda to give it a “worn” look, as well as silica or potassium permanganate, a highly  toxic chemical that contains metals
• more water to dye
• synthetic indigo dye made of coal or oil
• chemical solvents to create liquid dye, as well as lead, mercury, cadmium, and selenium, which can all end up in waterways, killing aquatic life, burning seedlings or sterilizing soil in local land