SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY

Good Partners

Partnering with

Ever-Better Factories

Following the Rana Plaza factory collapse in 2013, we made a commitment to transparently disclose the name and location of our factory partners. Since then, we’ve built out an extensive social responsibility and auditing program to ensure our supplier relationships are rooted in honesty, shared values, and continuous improvement.

Our social responsibility standards and expectations are outlined in our Vendor Code of Conduct, which follows the International Labor Organization’s (ILO) standards on human rights and are monitored and assessed by our third-party auditing partners. Our auditing process allows us to keep track of our partners’ performance and progress with regard to the safety and well-being of their people. We will not work with a supplier if they do not share our values, adhere to our Code of Conduct, and demonstrate commitment to continuous improvement.

To hold ourselves accountable to these standards and goals, we signed onto the Transparency Pledge and partner with the Open Supply Hub, disclosing Everlane’s Tier 1, 1A, and Tier 2 suppliers on their public-facing supply chain transparency platform.

Integrating Environmental

Responsibility

We acknowledge textile production’s impact on the planet’s natural resources, and we’re striving to do things differently. That's why we team up with innovative suppliers, scientific organizations, and third-party standards that share our vision for making products with a lighter touch.

Clean Energy

The majority of overseas factories still operate on coal-fired power and
machinery. One of the most effective ways we can decarbonize the apparel
industry is by transitioning manufacturing to clean energy through renewable
sources.

It's easier said than done. We're proud that 40% of our Tier 1 factory partners are already sourcing renewable energy, however, it's not enough. Decarbonizing our supplier base is going to be a major task-but we see this as our best long-term solution for curbing emissions.

We use tools like the Higg Facility Environmental Module (FEM) to collect verified primary data from our Tier 1 & Tier 2 suppliers, and benchmark their performance against environmental indicators. We're also working with the Apparel Impact Institute (Aii) to provide opportunity assessments for energy/electricity efficiency and renewable adoption.

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Cleaner Chemistry

The use of chemicals plays a crucial role in the textile supply chain-but there is
significant concern about potential hazards associated with some chemistry
used in the industry. To address this issue, we've adopted some of the most
comprehensive safer chemistry standards within the sector.

We are proud to be a bluesign® System Partner since 2018, and check that the
most chemically-intensive operations in our supply chain adhere to the strict
Manufacturing Restricted Substance List(MRSL) of bluesign® or Zero Discharge
of Hazardous Chemicals(ZDHC).

We also leverage suppliers that are certified to various safer chemistry standards
for relevant material certifications, such as the Global Organic Textile Standard
(GOTS),Global Recycled Standard (GRS),and CanopyStyle Hot Button ratings.

Water & Wastewater

The apparel supply chain runs on water, from farm to finished garment.We understand how important it is to partner with farms, factories, and facilities that have efficiency measures in place to minimize water consumption in operations, optimize water recycling, and manage wastewater responsibly.

Tools like the Higg FEM help us measure and benchmark water consumption, recovery, and wastewater discharge across our strategic suppliers.

In more water-intensive processes, like the creation of denim, we partner with
innovative factories, like Saitex, that employ state-of-the-art closed-loop water treatment systems that recover and reuse 96% of the water required for manufacturing-far surpassing industry standards. We also use Jeanologia's Environmental Impact Measurement(EIM) scores, which rate and score denim processes on water practices, in addition to chemistry, energy, and worker impacts.