Drop Your Jeans for a Good Cause!

Officers of the MAT Club

The countdown has begun and we are officially one-fourth of the way into the semester.  Between Ag Roundup and the start of the Cotton Incorporated Denim Drive, time has flown by.  Roundup was a blast and we used this awesome alumni event to kickoff our 2011 Denim Drive.  The denim drive is a program that our Merchandising, Apparel and Textiles Club holds each year.  Sponsored by Cotton Incorporated, this is the club’s third official year of participation.

The MAT Club began participating in 2008 and since then, we have collected almost 20,000 pairs of jeans!  The jeans and denim items that we collect are sent off and processed into insulation for Habitat for Humanity homes.  Our 2010 denim drive set the record for the most jeans collected by a University, 11,278 pairs!  These jeans insulated 24 homes and diverted 8.5 tons of waste from the landfill!

We collect on campus, in the community, and throughout the state at county Cooperative Extension offices, high schools, and churches.  Carhartt Inc. out of Irvine, Kentucky is a large contributor to the drive as well. We are also depending on you as students at the University of Kentucky to help us collect even more than last year. 

You can donate your jeans now until October 31^st in the following locations:  Ag Science North lobby, Erikson Hall, Commons, Blazer Café, and the Center for Community Outreach in the Student Center. 

For more information visit the following website: http://www.cottonfrombluetogreen.org/

And be sure to Drop Your Jeans for a Good Cause!

Meredith,  Merchandising, Apparel & Textile Senior