All CSR & Sustainability articles – Page 8
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ArticleExpo Riva Schuh aims to reach industry-wide principles on traceability
Expo Riva Schuh & Gardabags aims to foster a dialogue on product and supply chain traceability in the footwear and leather goods industries in order to define principles that will lead to sustainable manufacturing. ”Only by creating common ground for a traceability system shared by the entire footwear and leather ...
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Havaianas expands its flip flop ReCycle program in Asia
Havaianas has pledged to collect 10 percent of the total sold flip flops sold in its APAC locations by 2030, according to Inside Retail Asia Edition. Following on from its successful ReCycle initiative in Australia, launched in October 2021, Havaianas Asia Pacific is extending the initiative across APAC locations. In-store ...
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Xtep in partnership with Covestro to produce low-carbon running shoes
Xtep International Holdings established a strategic cooperation arrangement with Covestro, a German chemical group, and Silan Group, an integrated footwear platform, to produce low-carbon running shoes. The announcement of the partnership was made jointly with the presentation of Xtep’s low-carbon running shoes, 360-ECO, which uses biomass raw materials. Compared with ...
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Leather industry signs an updated version of its sustainability manifesto
Concurrently with the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP27), held in Egypt from Nov. 6 to 18, twenty-six bodies of the leather industry signed an updated version of a manifesto on sustainability, the so-called Leather Manifesto, that was published in October 2021. The signatories urged COP27 participants to encourage the ...
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ArticleEcco Leather in partnership with Ecovative
Ecco Leather, which is part of the Danish footwear group Ecco, has joined forces with Ecovative to develop new mycelium materials for the fashion industry and other sectors. In a joint statement, the parties claim it is the “first-of-its-kind partnership”, between a traditional leather tannery and a mycelium technology company. ...
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SponsoredDanny Cassidy: “Be future-focused”
Compliance and circularity: catalysts for digital innovation. How brands can keep up in a world full of regulatory change.
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Scarpa leads EU-funded recycling project
Scarpa, the Italian outdoor footwear specialist, has announced the launch of Re-Shoes, a recycling initiative backed by the European Union (EU). As the project leader, Scarpa will coordinate the efforts of a consortium of international companies that involve the recycling of end-of-life footwear reprocessed into new footwear. The project, which ...
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Nike launches shoe recycling program on Alipay
Nike Greater China has joined Ant Group’s Green Energy Initiative and launched an official mini-program on Alipay to encourage more Chinese consumers to recycle worn-out shoes. Consumers can search for the “Recycle-A-Shoe” mini-program on the Alipay app and have their old Nike shoes picked up. The shoes are then disassembled ...
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Allbirds cuts carbon footprint by 12%
Allbirds, the B Corporation certified Californian brand of footwear and apparel, cut by 12 percent its average product carbon footprint between 2020 and 2021, according to its latest sustainability report. “We have a specific, actionable plan to cut our per product carbon footprint in half by 2025 and drive ...
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ArticleMilspeed recycles fishing nets for shoe components
Milspeed, a U.K.-based manufacturer and supplier of footwear components, has revealed that since March 2020, it has been working on a program to reprocess discarded nylon fishing nets and recycle them into plastic shoe parts, such as toe puffs and counter material. The initiative, called Ocean Recovery Project, is carried ...
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Sponsored“If you’re interested in circular economy in the sports business, you can’t miss ISPO Munich 2022.”
ISPO Munich promises dialogue and exchange in the industry, and thus collaborations and faster progress. Learn the program highlights.
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ArticleFunds2Orgs doubles compensation to partners of its sneaker recycling scheme
Sneakers4Funds said that it has doubled compensation to U.S. partners taking part in its sneaker recycling program. The business, which was launched in 2016 by Funds2Orgs, pays running stores, clubs and events to help keep sneakers out of landfills. “This segment is rapidly becoming a large part of the overall ...
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Ugg launches classic boot made with regeneratively sourced materials
The Californian lifestyle brand Ugg, which is a division of Deckers Brands, has launched a new Classic Mini Regenerate. The boot, available for adults and children, is made with materials from Atkins Ranch, a ranch cared for with regenerative traditions to help restore soil, encourage wildlife diversity, capture carbon in ...
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King Steel, BASF, Otrajet join forces to produce recyclable products
King Steel Machinery, a Taiwanese engineering group producing shoemaking machinery, the German chemical company BASF and the elastomer manufacturer Otrajet have signed a joint development agreement to develop energy-saving processes that allow for manufacturing of 100-percent recyclable products, according to a joint statement. ”Combining expertise in plastic injection machine design, ...
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Kodiak introduces new workwear boots using algae-based materials
Kodiak, the 112-year-old Canadian footwear brand, is marching forward while paying tribute to its past with new men’s and women’s workwear boots in its fall 2022 collection. The new collection features Bloom technology, which converts biomaterials like algae into renewable, high-performance replacements for traditional petroleum-based EVA components, continuing Kodiak’s Built ...
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Vapesol launches soles made from factory waste of nitril gloves
The Portuguese company Vapesol, which manufactures more than five million pairs of soles yearly (according to its website), has teamed with the nitril glove company Raclac to produce of footwear soles from industrial waste. Raclac claims to be the only manufacturer of nitril examination gloves in Europe. Waste from its ...
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NFW Footwear Collective is growing
New Balance and Wolverine Worldwide have joined Natural Fiber Welding’s Footwear Collective, a cooperative platform aiming to reduce the environmental impact of footwear across the value chain. Curect members include Allbirds, Camper, Deckers and Ralph Lauren. Katy O’Brien, senior manager of innovation at New Balance, said: “We have been ...
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ArticleItalian shoemakers start using the VCS self-assessment ESG program
VCS (Verified & Certified Steps), a software package allowing the self-assessment of environmental, social and governance (ESG) performances launched by Assocalzaturifici, the Italian footwear association, is currently being tested by three Italian shoemakers. “We chose three companies of different sizes and with different business models” for the pilot tests, explained ...
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ArticleSecondhand online marketplaces on the rise
Cross-border marketplaces are developing fast, and the C2C trend is one of the drivers.
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Norway wealth fund asks invested firms for net zero by 2050
Norges Bank Investment Management, Norway’s sovereign wealth fund, will ask the over 9,000 companies in its investment portfolio to reach net zero emissions by 2050. ”We set a target of net zero emissions by 2050 at the latest for all companies,” said Carine Smith Ihenacho, chief governance and compliance officer ...
