Bonded Logic Insulation Made from Recycled Jeans
What do you do with your old jeans when you’re done with them? If you’re one American manufacturing company (Bonded Logic), you make household insulation out of them.
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Ok, the company actually takes post-industrial denim and cotton fibers (basically, the stuff that never became jeans) rather than the jeans that you’re tired of, and uses that as the major component (85%) to create LEED-applicable commercial and residential insulation.
Because of this feedstock and the process used to create the insulation, the insulation created by Bonded Logic doesn’t contain any chemical irritants or carcinogens. You can buy it at Home Depot, and get your kids to help you install it at home.
Image: P1160024 via Flickr’s Creative Commons
I just saw this stuff when i visited the Duke Smart Home today! Looks cool.
Back in 2002, waaay before anyone was even considering practical alternatives to fiberglass (even though Thomas Jefferson used cellulose in Monticello) I had to become a dealer for cotton insulation made by Inno-Therm (no longer available) to use in our home renovation, It arrived by tractor trailer, 27 huge rolls of blue cotton batting, that one guy, in one day, with no gloves or mask, put up by himself … and took a nap on it during his break. Warm, amazingly sound absorbent, and it saves so much in labor costs that there’s no contest. I wrote about the experience here: http://www.orlandoweekly.com/features/story.asp?id=2820