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Mitre supports British campaign for the homeless
Backing a call for football clubs all over the U.K. to ditch their home shirts for their Boxing Day matches between Dec. 26 and 28, Mitre launched a specially designed Mitre x Shelter football on Dec. 10 on its website, mitre.com, pricing it at £12. The Pentland-owned brand has pledged ...
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News briefsMade to be remade: How Adidas wants to trigger systemic change
Eight months after announcing the new project of a climate-friendly running shoe in collaboration with Allbirds, Adidas has reported the planned launch on Dec. 15 of its Futurecraft.Footprint. With 2.94 kg of CO2 emissions per pair, Adidas describes the shoe as a personal best for both brands. The Futurecraft.Footprint is ...
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News briefsHigg appoints a chief strategy officer to lead the platform’s expansion
Higg, the environmental software platform responsible for the Higg Index, has appointed James Schaffer as chief strategy officer to lead business development and partnerships. Schaffer’s experience in developing industry initiatives in the apparel sector, where Higg’s platform is widely used, is expected to be instrumental in guiding the company’s expansion ...
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Nike gets funding for apparel recycling research
The Remade Institute, a 132-member public-private partnership established by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) with an initial investment of $140 million, announced a funding round worth $33.2 million in new technology research, selecting 23 new projects. One of the beneficiaries will be Nike, which will explore the use of ...
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Patagonia and Nike are charged in a Dutch court with fostering forced labor in China
We hear that the European Center for Constitutional Rights (ECCHR), with the support of human rights legal office of Prakken d’Oliveira, has filed criminal complaints against several Dutch and U.S. textile and fashion brands that have their European headquarters in the Netherlands. They argue that Patagonia, Nike, C&A and State ...
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Skechers announces sustainable initiatives
Skechers announced the release of a new collection of durable men’s, women’s and children’s sneakers using recycled materials and washable technologies, called Our Planet Matters. The recycled materials will be listed on hangtags and the packaging. It also announced a multi-year partnership with The Nature Conservancy, starting with a minimum ...
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Pusu teams up with Spinnova for more sustainable skis
A five-year-old Finnish manufacturer of skis and snowboards, Pusu, has decided to partner with Spinnova, using its sustainable fibers to replace carbon and glass fiber as a durable, composite reinforcement material to go with wood. The company has already started pre-selling the first model of skis made with Spinnova for ...
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Decathlon is labelling its own products for CO2
Last month, Decathlon began grading the carbon footprint of apparel and shoes sold under its own brands. So far, the French retailer has labeled 63 percent of these products with a score from A to E (best to worst) and with a figure (in kilograms of CO2) calculated to reflect ...
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Google develops geographic fiber-tracking tool
Google has added a tool to its Google Earth Engine to gauge fibers by their geographic effects on the environment (air pollution, biodiversity, greenhouse gas emissions, effects on forestry, water use, etc.) and thereby guide textile brands to reduce the carbon emissions of their raw materials procurement. Developed in partnership ...
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News briefsOrthoLite launches new sustainable insole technologies
Source: OrthoLite OrthoLite HybridPlus Bio insole Addressing the rising demand for more sustainable insole solutions from its customers, U.S. brand OrthoLite is putting its plans announced earlier this year into action, introducing two new sole technologies that elevate the total eco content of the insoles to 57 ...
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Moncler, Gildan and Adidas star in the DJSI
The 2021 edition of the S&P Global Dow Jones Sustainability Index lists Moncler in its Gold Class, Gildan in its Silver Class and Adidas in the Bronze Class. Three other sports companies – Asics, Puma and the Super Retail Group – were listed along with The Gap and companies in ...
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XXL helps a non-profit buy and lend sports equipment
XXL is donating NOK 500,000 (€50,500-$57,400) for the purchase of sports and outdoor equipment – such as alpine skis, sleds and skates – to BUA, a Norwegian non-profit organization that lends such products to the young. So far this year BUA has loaned equipment to twice as many Norwegians (about ...
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News briefsCelebrating its 30th anniversary, Buff supports POW and other organizations
Buff is increasing its financial support for Protect Our Winters (POW) to more than $50,000 per year while launching a new collection that “recognizes the important work and culture” of the non-profit organization, founded in 2007 by the professional snowboarder Jeremy Jones. In addition, the Spanish brand of bandanas, which ...
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News briefsDecathlon works with a social impact brand in Germany
Decathlon is the first sports retailer in Germany to have entered into a partnership with a local social impact company, called Share , to support and promote “social shopping.” As of mid-November, customers can purchase Share beanies and socks in all Decathlon stores and online. For each item sold, another ...
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Inov-8 donating to restore peatlands
Inov-8 will be donating 5 percent of online and in-store sales revenues generated from Nov. 15 to 29 to the Cumbria Wildlife Trust, which will use the funds to restore peatlands in and around the U.K.’s Lake District, where the running, hiking and fitness-gear brand is based. For Peat’s Sake, ...
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News briefsCrocs to provide resale-as-a-service with ThredUp
Crocs is launching a resale program with ThredUp’s Resale-as-a-Service (RaaS) platform. Adidas did the same about a month ago, as we reported at the time, and called its program “Choose to Give Back.” Crocs’ program is called “Clean Out” and is likewise intended to help the brand achieve net-zero carbon ...
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News briefsAdidas scores high on S&P's sustainability index
Adidas has undergone a very positive ESG (environmental, social and governance) evaluation conducted by the ratings agency Standard & Poor’s (S&P), receiving a score of 85/100. It is the most recent of the 27 companies to obtain a public ESG profile, and the only one in the sports industry. By ...
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Zalando’s Zircle app adds resale option in Germany
Zalando has revamped and relaunched the Zircle app in its home market. German customers of the Zalando marketplace can now return articles of womenswear bought from their fellow customers there. All such items appear in the customers’ order history on the app. The new service will be extended to menswear ...
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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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The IOC boosts its environmental policy
Ahead of the COP 26 conference on climate change due to start in Glasgow on Nov. 1, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) pledged to halve its “direct and indirect greenhouse gas emissions” by 2030. Its previous pledge was to cut them by 45 percent by the same deadline, in keeping ...
