Post by account_disabled on Mar 15, 2024 23:00:18 GMT -5
Last year the percent of H&M’s suppliers in the best threshold on wastewater quality against Business for Social Responsibility standards increased across all three categories: chemical oxygen demand, biological oxygen demand and total suspended solids. At the same time, however, the number of reporting facilities fell.
Lifecycle assessment and disposal
In , H&M tested the pilot version of the Higg Index, the Sustainable Apparel Coalition’s tool for measuring environmental impacts across clothing supply chains. The company says it found great value in the pilot, but applying the index on a larger scale will be a challenge. Ultimately it hopes to translate the index into consumer labeling.
H&M says it is the first fashion retailer in the world to launch a global system to collect customers’ old clothes, of any brand and any condition. All the clothes are CG Leads reused or recycled. One challenge is that yarn from recycled textiles is often not strong enough for new garments, but the company says it is starting to address this by creating demand for innovation, and says it invests in this innovation using profits from its sales of old textiles.
The company’s distribution centers recycled percent of the waste they handled in , close to H&M’s percent goal for .
Other issues
The company banned perfluorinated compounds (PFCs) from all its products starting January . In , it launched the first products made with water-based polyurethane, which it says avoids the hazard posed to workers by solvent-based chemicals. H&M says it is working to scale up this pilot.
The retailer says is working to lead the industry to zero discharges of hazardous chemicals by , and has conducted extensive benchmark studies including in-depth chemical audits with all its strategic suppliers in China, India, Bangladesh and Cambodia.
H&M is also aiming to move all its catalogues to FSC-certified paper this year.
The sustainability report uses the GRI . guidelines, self-declared.
Lifecycle assessment and disposal
In , H&M tested the pilot version of the Higg Index, the Sustainable Apparel Coalition’s tool for measuring environmental impacts across clothing supply chains. The company says it found great value in the pilot, but applying the index on a larger scale will be a challenge. Ultimately it hopes to translate the index into consumer labeling.
H&M says it is the first fashion retailer in the world to launch a global system to collect customers’ old clothes, of any brand and any condition. All the clothes are CG Leads reused or recycled. One challenge is that yarn from recycled textiles is often not strong enough for new garments, but the company says it is starting to address this by creating demand for innovation, and says it invests in this innovation using profits from its sales of old textiles.
The company’s distribution centers recycled percent of the waste they handled in , close to H&M’s percent goal for .
Other issues
The company banned perfluorinated compounds (PFCs) from all its products starting January . In , it launched the first products made with water-based polyurethane, which it says avoids the hazard posed to workers by solvent-based chemicals. H&M says it is working to scale up this pilot.
The retailer says is working to lead the industry to zero discharges of hazardous chemicals by , and has conducted extensive benchmark studies including in-depth chemical audits with all its strategic suppliers in China, India, Bangladesh and Cambodia.
H&M is also aiming to move all its catalogues to FSC-certified paper this year.
The sustainability report uses the GRI . guidelines, self-declared.