Big companies report their profits in quarterly earnings reports. We think companies should be accountable for more than just profits. Our Sustainability at Reformation framework sets our goals and priorities for the next few years. Here is an update on our progress so far.
We work with incredible partners that share our values of accountability, transparency, and sustainability and make a real impact in the industry. We published our first Our Factories list
so you can learn more about the factories behind our clothes.
Transparency is key in promoting worker rights. We are accountable to ensure safe, healthy, and fair working conditions in all our factories. We know we’re not perfect, but we’ll always do our
best to be transparent and keep pushing for better.
Our Sustainable Partners Process:
Ratings of all of our vendors:
An audit is just a snapshot in time, so we prioritize active continuous improvement, root cause analysis and development of necessary management systems. Our audits may include confidential worker interviews and mobile phone surveys that provide deeper insight into worker satisfaction or other areas
of improvement.
Less than 1% of material used to make clothing is recycled into new fabrics, which is equivalent to wasting a $100 billion worth of materials each year. That’s why we partner with Osomtex to upcycle our fabric scraps from our Factory in Los Angeles.
28,288
Pounds of fabric scraps up-cycled
There is actually enough clothing and textiles in existence today to meet our global annual demand. In 2019, our goal is to reuse or recycle at least 100,000 garments through things like Ref Vintage sourcing, thredUP and Rent the Runway partnerships, and RefRecycling. We’ve already accomplished our goal, and we’re half way through the year–keep up the good work!
155,194
Garments reused or recycled
RefScale tracks our product environmental footprint in terms of water, carbon dioxide, and waste. The whole equation follows the lifecycle of clothes—everything from growing textile fibers and making fabric, dyeing, moving materials, manufacturing, packaging, shipping, garment care, and even recycling clothes when you’re done with them. We offset our footprint 100%, but always push for better materials, factories, and operations to keep our footprint as low as possible.
Here’s our impact from last quarter:
Here’s what percentage we saved this quarter compared to most clothes bought in the US:
We want to be able to answer “who made our clothes” at every level of the supply chain in order to assess the full environmental and social impact of our products. This is why we require our suppliers to provide us with sourcing information and all third-party certificates for our fabrics. But we still have a lot of work to do–supply chains are fragmented and complex. We’re building systems in order to better track and evaluate lower tiers of our supply
chain so look for more traceability of Tiers 2 and beyond next.