Textile Exchange encourages collaboration with first raw materials benchmark
24/09/2015
Around 70% of these companies use a voluntary sustainability standard to help them ensure the integrity of their organic products and 64% are tracking other preferred materials.
The findings have been released as part of the Textile Exchange’s efforts to measures the progress of 57 textile companies in their effort to become more sustainable.
The companies submitted data about their organic cotton and other “preferred materials” use.
However, the TE said policies on raw materials (69%) and animal welfare (44%) are lagging behind human rights and ethical trade (81%).
In this first year of the programme, companies will receive a baseline analysis of their sustainability performance to compare with the sector average. In subsequent years they will be able to chart their own year-on-year improvements and measure their pace of change against that of their peers.
The benchmarking results will be featured at TE’s global Textile Sustainability Conference in October and in a series of online workshops later this year.
Liesl Truscott, European and materials strategy director at TE, said: “Our aim is to have these companies learn from each other and even feel a sense of urgency to make improvements similar to those of their colleagues in the industry. As we move beyond the pilot phase we’ll also be encouraging more companies to join in.”
Further information can be found on the Textile Exchange website.
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