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The Better Cotton Initiative (BCI), or just Better Cotton for short, is the largest cotton sustainability program in the world. Our mission is to help cotton communities survive and thrive, while protecting and restoring the environment. In just over a decade, we have convinced stakeholders who span the industry to be our partners. Farmers, ginners, spinners, vendors, manufacturers, brand owners, retailers, civil society organizations, donors and governments. They buy into our approach of training farming communities to produce cotton in ways that improve things for everyone, and everything connected with this fluffy white staple.

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Organic cotton is grown in agricultural systems that work with nature, rather than against it. The organic way of farming combines tradition, innovation, and science to benefit the environment, promoting fair relationships and improved quality of life for all.

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Organic farming systems have the potential to sustain and promote the health of soils, ecosystems, and people by relying on ecological processes, biodiversity, and cycles that are adapted to local conditions, rather than using external inputs that could have adverse effects.

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Recycled polyester comes from any polyester-based source that’s been mechanically or chemically recycled to create a material that matches the quality of virgin polyester as closely as possible.

The product must be composed of materials that have been recovered or otherwise diverted from the waste stream, either during the manufacturing process (pre-consumer), or after consumer use (post-consumer)

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Recycled canvas is simply canvas that has been made from recycled materials, typically cotton or polyester.

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The product must be composed of materials that have been recovered or otherwise diverted from the waste stream, either during the manufacturing process (pre-consumer), or after consumer use (post-consumer)

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Recycled cotton can be generally defined as converting cotton fabric into cotton fiber that can be reused in textile products. Recycled cotton is also commonly referred to as regenerated cotton, reclaimed cotton, or shoddy.

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The product must be composed of materials that have been recovered or otherwise diverted from the waste stream, either during the manufacturing process (pre-consumer), or after consumer use (post-consumer)

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The Higg Index is a suite of tools for the measurement of value chain sustainability—developed by Cascale, formerly Sustainable Apparel Coalition, and hosted exclusively on Worldly.

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Product Tools Include:

• The Materials Sustainability Index and Product Module provide information about the impact of materials used in the apparel, footwear, and home textile industries.

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Bluesign® is a full-service solutions system for the textile value chain with a focus on sustainable chemistry. Through on-site assessments, input stream management, and chemical inventory verification, the Bluesign® team uses a holistic approach together with their system partners, including brands, manufacturers, and chemical vendors, to develop unique solutions to improve environmental performance, working conditions, and resource consumption to create the highest level of safety for people, planet and consumers.

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Our mission is the development, implementation, verification, protection and promotion of the Global Organic Textile Standard (GOTS). This standard stipulates requirements throughout the supply chain for both ecological and labor conditions in textile and apparel manufacturing using organically produced raw materials. Organic production is based on a system of farming that maintains and replenishes soil fertility without the use of toxic, persistent pesticides or synthetic fertilizers. In addition, it includes welfare standards for animal husbandry and prohibits genetically modified organisms.

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The Global Recycled Standard (GRS) is an international, voluntary, full product standard that sets requirements for third-party certification of Recycled Content, chain of custody, social and environmental practices, and chemical restrictions. The goal of the GRS is to increase use of Recycled materials in products and reduce/eliminate the harm caused by its production.

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The Organic Content Standard (OCS) is an international, voluntary standard that provides chain of custody verification for materials originating on a farm certified to recognized national organic standards. The standard is used to verify organically grown raw materials from the farm to the final product.

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Carbon negative requires a company to remove more carbon dioxide from the atmosphere than it emits.

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Net zero means that any carbon dioxide released into the atmosphere from the company’s activities is balanced by an equivalent amount being removed. Net zero emissions must also consider the other greenhouse gases including methane, nitrous oxide, and fluorinated gases.

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In a carbon neutral organization there is a commitment to evaluate the CO2 emissions produced. This is coupled with finding ways to reduce those emissions and with compensating for these by reducing emissions elsewhere, or by removing an equal amount of CO2 from the atmosphere.

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This balancing practice is known as carbon offsetting and could involve planting new trees or investing in renewable energy, or with for example bioenergy carbon capture and storage (BECCS).

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Carbon neutral can cover a defined part of business operations, and typically accounts for CO2 emissions and not other greenhouse gases.

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The Better Cotton Initiative (BCI), or just Better Cotton for short, is the largest cotton sustainability program in the world. Our mission is to help cotton communities survive and thrive, while protecting and restoring the environment. In just over a decade, we have convinced stakeholders who span the industry to be our partners. Farmers, ginners, spinners, vendors, manufacturers, brand owners, retailers, civil society organizations, donors and governments. They buy into our approach of training farming communities to produce cotton in ways that improve things for everyone, and everything connected with this fluffy white staple.

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Bluesign® is a full-service solutions system for the textile value chain with a focus on sustainable chemistry. Through on-site assessments, input stream management, and chemical inventory verification, the Bluesign® team uses a holistic approach together with their system partners, including brands, manufacturers, and chemical vendors, to develop unique solutions to improve environmental performance, working conditions, and resource consumption to create the highest level of safety for people, planet and consumers.

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Circularity means finding ways to put products, components, and materials back into the supply chain rather than ending up in landfills after their first use.

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The Cradle to Cradle Certified® Product Standard provides the framework to assess the safety, circularity and responsibility of materials and products across five categories of sustainability performance: Material Health, Product Circularity, Clean Air & Climate Protection, Water & Soil Stewardship, and Social Fairness. It is a solidified investment towards a circular business model/economy.

Our mission is the development, implementation, verification, protection and promotion of the Global Organic Textile Standard (GOTS). This standard stipulates requirements throughout the supply chain for both ecological and labor conditions in textile and apparel manufacturing using organically produced raw materials. Organic production is based on a system of farming that maintains and replenishes soil fertility without the use of toxic, persistent pesticides or synthetic fertilizers. In addition, it includes welfare standards for animal husbandry and prohibits genetically modified organisms.

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The Global Recycled Standard (GRS) is an international, voluntary, full product standard that sets requirements for third-party certification of Recycled Content, chain of custody, social and environmental practices, and chemical restrictions. The goal of the GRS is to increase use of Recycled materials in products and reduce/eliminate the harm caused by its production.

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Our ORGANIC COTTON certification offers verification from farm to product. Products bearing this label have been manufactured without the use of GMO and tested for pesticides and other harmful substances.

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OEKO-TEX® STANDARD 100 certified products are tested for harmful substances to protect your health.

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STANDARD 100 certified items including every thread, button and accessory are tested against a list of over 1,000 substances that are harmful to your health but also to the environment. We review the limit values for all of them at least once a year. 

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OEKO-TEX® MADE IN GREEN labelled products can be tracked as our label provides supply chain traceability, ensuring that each step – from production to the final product - is built on rigorous testing standards.

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Safety for people and the planet MADE IN GREEN gives you confidence that the labelled product has been tested for harmful substances and was made in certified and audited production facilities.

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Social responsibility Vendors in a MADE IN GREEN supply chain are obliged to take actions to protect workers, ensure safe working conditions, and strengthen healthy labor practices.

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The Higg Index is a suite of tools for the measurement of value chain sustainability—developed by Cascale, formerly Sustainable Apparel Coalition, and hosted exclusively on Worldly.

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Facility and Brand & Retail Tools Include:

• The Facility Environment Module and Facility Social Labor Module enable yearly measurement, evaluation, and performance improvement in categories such as water, energy, chemical management, and employee safety.
• The Brand and Retailer Module (BRM) helps brands and retailers in the textile, apparel and footwear industry measure the environmental, social and governance impact of their business operations and identify opportunities for yearly improvements in their sustainability performance.

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LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) is the world's most widely used green building rating system. LEED certification provides a framework for healthy, highly efficient, and cost-saving green buildings, which offer environmental, social and governance benefits.

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LEED-certified buildings are critical to addressing climate change and meeting ESG goals, enhancing resilience, and supporting more equitable communities. LEED is a holistic system that doesn’t simply focus on one building element, such as energy, water or health. Instead, it looks at the big picture, factoring in all critical elements that work together to create the best building possible.

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Renewable energy comes from unlimited, naturally replenished resources, such as the sun, tides, and wind. Renewable energy can be used for electricity generation, space and water heating and cooling, and transportation.

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SMETA is an audit, which helps you to understand standards of labor, health and safety, environmental performance, and ethics within your own operations or at a vendor site.

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The SMETA audit is designed to help protect workers from unsafe conditions, overwork, discrimination, low pay, and forced labor.

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Cotton that is both sourced by farmers using sustainable farming methods and manufactured using sustainable practices. BCI cotton is grown using less water, less fertilizer and fewer pesticides, while also improving the lives of farmers by increasing cotton crop yields.

The bluesign® technologies group is involved at every step in the supply chain—from chemical formulation to finished product—to keep chemicals of concern out of the process. The group works with factories and brands to impact the following areas: resource use, occupational health and safety, water and air emissions, and consumer safety.

The Cradle to Cradle Certified® Product Standard provides the framework to assess the safety, circularity and responsibility of materials and products across five categories of sustainability performance: Material Health, Product Circularity, Clean Air & Climate Protection, Water & Soil Stewardship, and Social Fairness. It is a solidified investment towards a circular business model/economy.

The Global Recycled Standard (GRS) is an international, voluntary, full product standard that sets requirements for third-party certification of Recycled Content, chain of custody, social and environmental practices, and chemical restrictions. The goal of the GRS is to increase use of recycled materials in products and reduce/eliminate the harm caused by its production.

The HIGG Index is an apparel and footwear industry self-assessment standard for assessing environmental and social sustainability throughout the supply chain. It enables brands, retailers, and facilities of all sizes – at every stage in their sustainability journey – to accurately measure and score a company or product's sustainability performance. The HIGG Index measures environmental (energy/greenhouse gas emissions; water; wastewater/effluent; air emissions; waste; and chemicals management) and social impacts across the life cycle of an apparel and footwear product.

Better Work – a collaboration between the United Nation’s International Labour Organization (ILO) and the International Finance Corporation (IFC), a member of the World Bank Group – is a comprehensive program bringing together all levels of the garment industry to improve working conditions and respect of labor rights for workers and boost the competitiveness of apparel businesses.

The Responsible Business Alliance (RBA) has been at the forefront of combating forced labor through the application of advanced due diligence standards, programs and tools in the global supply chains of its members. In order to accelerate change, this due diligence must be harmonized across multiple industries that share recruitment supply chains to drive labor market transformation through collective action. To catalyze this, the Responsible Labor Initiative (RLI) was launched in 2017. The RLI is a multi-industry, multi-stakeholder initiative focused on ensuring that the rights of workers vulnerable to forced labor in global supply chains are consistently respected and promoted.

Many of our brands have partnered with the Fair Labor Association to ensure their labor rights commitments are meeting the highest international standards for global supply chains. The FLA provides targeted guidance for companies working to achieve FLA Accreditation and ongoing training for accredited companies.

The Worldwide Responsible Accredited Production or more commonly known as WRAP, focuses on promoting safe, lawful, humane, and ethical manufacturing around the world through a comprehensive audit and certification program. WRAP works with facilities at the ground level to bolster their compliance standing and support the long-term success of their businesses, while protecting the liberties of workers and safeguarding our environment. When you purchase from any of our WRAP certified brands, that certification affirms that a production unit consistently abides by all applicable laws and best practices, and their independent, third-party approach promotes accountability, transparency, and objectivity throughout the process.

OEKO-TEX® MADE IN GREEN is a traceable product label for all kinds of textiles and leather products that have been manufactured in environmentally friendly facilities under safe and socially responsible working conditions. The MADE IN GREEN label also reassures consumers that the textile or leather product is made of materials that have been tested for harmful substances.

The SMETA audit helps businesses understand and improve working conditions, health and safety standards, environmental performance, and ethics within their own operations or at supplier sites. When a company undergoes an SMETA audit, an approved auditor assesses these aspects and provides a Corrective Action Plan to enhance performance in these areas.

Companies and brands that are members of 1% for the Planet have committed to donating 1% of annual sales to nonprofit partners in support of environmental solutions.

The B-Rad Foundation exists to support youth and their communities. We foster individual empowerment through environmental stewardship, health, and adventure programs. We believe in the next generation's responsibility to embody these principles and are resolved to make a positive and lasting impact within our communities and for our planet.

Founded in October 2003 to help military children and disabled/wounded veterans. Our organization is working daily to assist our U.S. military service connected fallen and/or disabled veterans and their families through hardships they face after losing their loved one or after their loved one is unable to provide financially as they once did prior to their disability. Our programs provide emotional, educational, financial, health & well-being, morale and children’s enrichment assistance.

Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) offers medical humanitarian assistance to people based solely on need, irrespective of race, religion, gender, or political affiliation. Our teams of doctors, nurses, logisticians, and other frontline workers are often among the first on the scene when peoples’ lives are upended by conflict, disease outbreaks, or natural or human-made disasters.

Fisher House Foundation builds comfort homes where military & veteran families can stay free of charge, while a loved one is in the hospital. These homes are located at military and VA medical centers around the world.

FUNDEMAS is an alliance of organizations committed to the sustainable development of El Salvador in economic, social and environmental areas. This alliance is made up of small, medium and large companies, unions, foundations, universities and business leaders.

FUNDAHRSE is a non-profit, apolitical, non-religious organization whose main objective is the promotion of Sustainability and Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), understood as a continuous commitment of companies to contribute to sustainable economic development, improving the quality of life of their employees and their families, as well as the local community and society in general.

At Guide Dogs for the Blind (GDB), we believe that everyone deserves to move through the world safely and confidently—to live the life they want to live. Our passionate community employs innovative practices to create life-changing partnerships. And, we advocate for the policy reforms that change how the world views blindness and disability. Because when everyone is empowered to participate, our communities are stronger. With world-class client services and a robust network of instructors, puppy raisers, donors, and volunteers, we prepare highly qualified guide dogs and K9 Buddy dogs, provide guide dog readiness skills, and offer youth programs to empower individuals who are blind or visually impaired. GDB not only improves mobility for our clients, we further inclusion.

For every eligible piece of Hanes apparel you purchase for embellishment, the school of your choice will receive a cash rebate of $0.10

HERproject stands with women as they take greater control of their lives, ensuring that they can make and act on choices they value. We firmly believe that women in global supply chains have the potential to be powerful agents for positive change in workplaces and in society. HERproject works to unlock that potential. Our ambition is for employment and empowerment to go hand-in-hand for women workers, with an empowered female workforce seen as a driver for business success.

Meals on Wheels America is the leadership organization supporting the more than 5,000 community-based programs across the country that are dedicated to addressing senior isolation and hunger. Powered by a dedicated volunteer workforce, this network delivers the nutritious meals, friendly visits and safety checks that enable America’s seniors to live nourished lives with independence and dignity. By providing funding, leadership, education, research and advocacy support, Meals on Wheels America empowers its local member programs to strengthen their communities, one senior at a time.

Threads of Change Berks is a 100% volunteer run organization founded by a group of foster parents. We aspire to make a difference in the lives of Foster Children and Foster Parents.

Since 2004, Vail Veterans Program has transformed the lives of military injured and their families through innovative programs that build confidence and life-long relationships. Programs range from the adventurous to the connective, including summer and winter therapeutic recreational programming, caregiver-specific wellness events, and empowerment training. Vail Veterans Program participants include United States military personnel who have been severely injured while serving our country. Most veterans who participate in our programs come directly from: Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, MD; Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio, TX, and the Naval Medical Center in San Diego, CA. Vail Veterans Program events are provided to military injured and their families entirely free of charge.

The Trevor Project is an American nonprofit organization founded in 1998. Focused on suicide prevention efforts among lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and questioning (LGBTQ) youth, they offer a toll-free telephone number where confidential assistance is provided by trained counselors. The stated goals of the project are to provide crisis intervention and suicide prevention services for youth (defined by the organization as people under 25), as well as to offer guidance and resources to parents and educators in order to foster safe, accepting, and inclusive environments for all youth, at home, schools and colleges.

The Nature Conservancy is a global environmental nonprofit working to create a world where people and nature can thrive. Founded in the U.S. through grassroots action in 1951, The Nature Conservancy (TNC) has grown to become one of the most effective and wide-reaching environmental organizations in the world.

#BlackLivesMatter was founded in 2013 in response to the acquittal of Trayvon Martin’s murderer. Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation, Inc. is a global organization in the US, UK, and Canada, whose mission is to eradicate white supremacy and build local power to intervene in violence inflicted on Black communities by the state and vigilantes. By combating and countering acts of violence, creating space for Black imagination and innovation, and centering Black joy, we are winning immediate improvements in our lives.