Posted Wednesday, September 16, 2009
Featured on Episode 1 of the 2009-2010 season
There's a new world record for the most items of clothing collected for recycling as more than 30,000 pairs of jeans were gathered this summer at Washington DC's Union Station. The magazine "National Geographic Kids" led the effort to collect old pairs of jeans from readers across the country. The jeans will be turned into insulation for rebuilding homes damaged by natural disasters. The magazine honored nine-year-old Erek Hansen of Curtice, Ohio, for organizing a huge denim drive at his school to collect more than sixteen hundred pairs of jeans for the project, including five of his own.
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