All CSR & Sustainability articles – Page 11
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Expo Riva Schuh releases online events calendar
Riva del Garda Fierecongressi, the organizers of Expo Riva Schuh and Gardabags, confirmed that the trade shows will be held Jan. 15-18 at the exhibition center of the Italian town of Riva del Garda to present collections for the autumn/winter 2022-2023 season. They also released a calendar of online events ...
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Nike under suspicion of greenwashing in German media
In a broad investigative joint journalistic effort, several German media have chased down returned Nike footwear (used and new) that had been tagged with GPS trackers and went into a recycling plant in Herenthout, Belgium, to be destroyed and recycled into the “Grind” material that Nike uses for gym floors, ...
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Crocs to provide resale-as-a-service with ThredUp
Crocs is launching a resale program with ThredUp’s Resale-as-a-Service (RaaS) platform. The program is called “Clean Out” and is likewise intended to help the brand achieve net-zero carbon emissions – in this case by 2030 – and establish a circular economy. Customers in the U.S. can go online and print ...
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VF makes new CSR pledges
VF Corp’s fourth sustainability and responsibility report says the group will achieve zero waste verification at all its warehouses and distribution centers by the end of this year, compared with 72 percent at present. This would mean that at least 95 percent of their waste will be diverted from landfills. ...
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ArticleMost U.S. footwear companies plan to increase the use of sustainable materials
Sustainability continues to be a hot topic for U.S. footwear companies with 69 percent planning to use more bio-materials or recycled content in their upcoming collections while 49 percent of them are already asking material suppliers for certifications or life cycle assessments to verify claims, according to the 2021 Shoe ...
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China to increase coal production by nearly 6%
China is due to increase coal production by nearly 6 percent to address power shortages affecting the country, the news agency AFP reported citing the country’s National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC). China is the world’s main coal producer and polluter, as well as the largest manufacturer of footwear, and ...
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SBTi approves eBay’s ambitious climate action goal
eBay’s ambitious greenhouse gas (GHG) reduction targets were approved by the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi). The U.S. e-commerce company commits to cut its own (scope 1 and scope 2) emissions by 90 percent by 2030 from a 2019 base year, in line with limiting global temperature warming to 1.5°C ...
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VF and WaterAid partner to vaccinate Cambodians
In an effort to protect workers’ health and keep the supply chain steady, VF is supporting the distribution of Covid-19 vaccines in Cambodia. VF’s Worker and Community Development program, partnering with the nonprofit WaterAid to support the rollout of the Cambodian government’s Covid-19 response plan. More than 20,000 factory workers ...
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Allbirds revises IPO terms
Allbirds has revised its proposals for an initial public offering (IPO). When the California-based B Corp producer of sustainable sneakers, filed its IPO application with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission it announced that it was planning to go for the first “Sustainable Public Offering,” or SPO, pledging to ...
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Tamaris tops sustainability ranking
Tamaris, the leading brand of the German footwear company Wortmann Group, topped the ranking as the most sustainable footwear brand carried out by the German magazine Focus Money. In the magazine’s ”Deutschlands Beste – Nachhaltigkeit“ (Germany’s Best - Sustainability), Sioux finished second in the footwear category, followed by Ecco and ...
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Adidas inaugurates a circular-fashion program with ThredUp
Adidas has inaugurated a circular-fashion program, called “Choose to Give Back.” The German brand is inviting customers to earn rewards from its Creator’s Club by returning used apparel and accessories from any brand for resale or re-use. It works through a combination of Adidas’ Creator’s Club app and ThredUp’s Reseale-as-a-Service ...
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Vibram’s “Repair if you care” campaign continues
Vibram’s “Repair if you care” campaign, which focuses on the concept of reuse and repair as a sustainable approach, is entering a second round. The company, for which repair has played a central role for the past 80 years, underlines in it once again the importance of reprocessing shoes and ...
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Keen launches sneakers made from agricultural waste
Keen Footwear has unveiled a proprietary manufacturing process that uses agricultural waste to create what it claims to be the industry’s first sneakers with plant-based soles made without chemical solvents. The “Field to Foot” (F2F) sneakers are part of the Detox The Planet initiative and were developed by the Keen ...
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ArticleHigg starts traceability program for supply chain sustainability
Technology platform Higg has launched a new traceability program developed in collaboration with software, cloud and data processing specialists atma.io, FibreTrace and TrusTrace. The new technical solution aims to offer comprehensive transparency across the global supply chain – enabling brands to highlight and disclose sustainability information on their own and ...
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ArticleBoohoo publishes global supply chain list as part of transparency drive
The British fast fashion retailer Boohoo has published details of the 1,100 factories it uses worldwide, as it looks to boost transparency within its supply chain after a scandal last year over working conditions. Reports first emerged in September 2020 of unacceptable working conditions and pay at factories supplying Boohoo ...
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Crocs is changing the material contents of its Classic Clog
In a quest to halve its carbon footprint and achieve net zero emissions by 2030, Crocs has begun using a bio-based material that it has trademarked under the name Croslite. The brand’s idea is to change not the design but the composition of its signature product, the Classic Clog. This ...
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French advertising body agrees that Adidas has stretched its sustainability claims
The ARPP, a non-governmental association for the self-regulation of advertising in France, has sided with a consumer against Adidas. The consumer contends that the German brand’s claims made earlier this year with regard to both the recycled content of its Stan Smith Forever shoes and the extent to which the ...
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ArticleSOLE launches climate accountability initiative and carbon-negative insoles
Canadian footwear company SOLE has launched CO2negative, an initiative in collaboration with ReCORK to promote and facilitate the accurate labeling of the climate impact of consumer products and the certification of CO2-negative products, and simultaneously announced its first CO2negative-certified insoles, the Performance footbed collection. Made from ReCORK recycled cork, the ...
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ArticleMarket share of preferred fibers and materials continues to increase
After years of growth, global fiber production, hit by the Covid-19 pandemic, decreased from 111 million tons in 2019 to 109 million tons in 2020. While overall fiber production declined, the market share of preferred fibers and materials is increasing. According to a new report by Textile Exchange, entitled ”Preferred ...
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H&M Q2 sales up 75% in local currencies
Hennes & Mauritz (H&M)’s sales in the second quarter ended May 31 rose by 75 percent in local currencies and by 62 percent on a reported basis to 46,509 million Swedish krona (€4,601m-$5,577m). The company benefited from the strengthening of the krona, but continued to be affected by restriction caused ...
