MAKING FASHION A FORCE FOR GOOD
for the planet. That thing about us only having one? It’s true! We love fashion and we want to make sure we are part of the solution. From climate change to sustainable materials and recycling, we’re on a journey to address the impact our business has on the environment.
Enhancing quality through sustainability
We are committed to improving the sustainable credentials of our clothing and accessories - our goal is to make at least 50% of our garments using sustainable materials by 2023. This means building on innovative designs, supporting responsible production practices and improving new and current products to reduce waste. This is a huge area for us that continues to grow.
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Eliminating the baddies
We are committed to removing all hazardous chemicals from our products and meet the highest industry standard. This means ensuring that our products (including fabrics, dyes, prints, components and trims etc) are manufactured in safe working conditions and that workers are not exposed to any chemicals that are classified as hazardous or harmful, or detrimental to the environment.
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Building our stewardship
Water is one of the key natural resources impacted by the fashion industry and it’s a basic human right that everyone should have access to it. We are helping to reduce water consumption at the farm level through our work with BCI farmers and we are harvesting rainwater at our Distribution Centre. But our water programme is still in its infancy with a lot more to do - we aim to have our water stewardship programme in place by 2025.
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Saying goodbye to landfill
Waste is such a waste! From April 2022 we are pleased to offer our customers the opportunity to return their old and unwanted clothes to us in-store and online. The Take Back scheme will start in selected stores and for some online customers and then expand to all our stores by the end of the year.
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Net Zero here we come
The signing of the Paris Agreement on Climate Change in 2015 saw an international commitment to limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius compared with pre-industrialised levels. Aligned to the same goals as the Paris Agreement, River Island has committed to the British Retail Consortium’s Climate Roadmap to net-zero emissions by 2040, along with many of our friends on the high street. We have also signed an agreement with The Carbon Trust to help collate our scopes 1 & 2 footprint and build a roadmap for mapping scope 3 in 2022 along with the setting of Science Based Targets which will be submitted with the SBT initiative for certification by the end of 2022.
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for the planet. That thing about us only having one? It’s true! We love fashion and we want to make sure we are part of the solution. From climate change to sustainable materials and recycling, we’re on a journey to address the impact our business has on the environment.
Enhancing quality through sustainability
We are committed to improving the sustainable credentials of our clothing and accessories - over 1 in 4 of our products are currently sustainably attributed and all of our jeans are made using Responsibly Sourced Cotton, but our goal is to make at least 50% of our garments using sustainable materials by 2023. This means building on innovative designs, supporting responsible production practices and improving new and current products to reduce waste. Our sustainable collections RI One, Nushu and Kind Society are committed to using sustainable materials, leading the way for the rest of our products. This is a huge area for us that continues to grow.
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Eliminating the baddies
We are committed to removing all hazardous chemicals from our products and meet the highest industry standard. This means ensuring that our products (including fabrics, dyes, prints, components and trims etc) are manufactured in safe working conditions and that workers are not exposed to any chemicals that are classified as hazardous or harmful, or detrimental to the environment.
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Building our stewardship
Water is one of the key natural resources impacted by the fashion industry and it’s a basic human right that everyone should have access to it. We are helping to reduce water consumption at the farm level through our work with BCI farmers and we are harvesting rainwater at our Distribution Centre. But our water programme is still in its infancy with a lot more to do - we aim to have our water stewardship programme in place by 2025.
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Saying goodbye to landfill
Waste is such a waste! From April 2022 we are pleased to offer our customers the opportunity to return their old and unwanted clothes to us in-store and online. The Take Back scheme will start in selected stores and for some online customers and then expand to all our stores by the end of the year.
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Net Zero here we come
The signing of the Paris Agreement on Climate Change in 2015 saw an international commitment to limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius compared with pre-industrialised levels. Aligned to the same goals as the Paris Agreement, River Island has committed to the British Retail Consortium’s Climate Roadmap to net-zero emissions by 2040, along with many of our friends on the high street. We have also signed an agreement with The Carbon Trust to help collate our scopes 1 & 2 footprint and build a roadmap for mapping scope 3 in 2022 along with the setting of Science Based Targets which will be submitted with the SBT initiative for certification by the end of 2022.
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