WASHINGTON
There's a new world record for the most items of clothing collected for recycling as more than 30,000 pairs of jeans have been gathered at Washington's Union Station.
The magazine National Geographic Kids led the effort to collect old pairs of jeans from readers across the country. On Wednesday, a judge from Guinness World Records certified the results.
The jeans will be recycled and reprocessed into insulation for rebuilding homes damaged by natural disasters. It will be enough material to insulate more than 60 homes.
The magazine honored 9-year-old Erek Hansen of Curtice, Ohio, for organizing a denim drive at his school to collect more than 1,600 pairs of jeans for the project. Erek says he wanted to keep the jeans out of the landfill.
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