SUSTAINABILITY

SUSTAINABILITY AMBITION 

At Coo, our sustainable and ethical ambition are shaped by the social, environmental, and ethical challenges that we all are facing worldwide. This means that we are on a constant journey of learning and adjusting ways to improve our impact in the industry, and how we can reduce our overall environmental impact. 

Firstly, we believe that our main goal and responsibility is to create items that our customers will enjoy and wear for a long period of time and that we as a company are proud of producing. To ensure that our items live up to its expectations, we see quality and production as crucial parts of achieving this and the greatest starting point in working toward our sustainability ambition.

OUR SUPPLIERS

We are proud to cooperate with one of the best suppliers and manufacturers of seamless and sportswear in Europe. Helping us develop and produce our best potential items, our suppliers not only share our passion to make strong and high-quality products but are also committed to doing it in an ethical and sustainable manner. Our suppliers are located in northern Portugal and are meeting the highest textile standard requirements certifications, audited by accredited certification bodies and organizations, and are as follows:

Sedex/Smeta
SMETA (Sedex Members Ethical Trade Audit) is an ethical audit method that uses the ETI Base Code, founded on the conventions of the International Labour Organization, as well as relevant local laws. The four pillars for a SMETA audit are Labour Standards and Health & Safety, environmental and ethical business.

STANDARD 100 by OEKO-TEX®
Standard 100 by OEKO-TEX® is one of the world’s best-known and most widely used labels for textiles reliably tested for harmful substances. This standard also certifies that products are manufactured without harmful substances and are therefore harmless for human health.

Higg Environmental
The Facility Social & Labour Module (FSLM) measures overall social labor practices in facilities and tracks management systems, operational controls, oversight, and worker and stakeholder engagement.

Higg Social Labour
The Higg Index is a suite of tools for the standardized measurement of value chain sustainability, developed by the Sustainable Apparel Coalition to transform businesses for exponential impact.

If you wish to read more about their standards and principles, please click here.

METHODS AND YARNS

From a quality point of view, we carefully work together with our supplier and manufacturer to select and review all materials that our clothes are made of, to ensure our products live up to the highest quality standard and that they will sustain with time. Before final production, does each product undergo a comprehensive quality control in order to make sure they fulfill our intended requirements and really boost the aimed performance. 

For our seamless production, does the manufacturing equal a minimal production waste as each garment is produced by knitting each size individually and therefore minimizing the fabric used. 

OPERATION

Our focus here covers how we can reduce the environmental impact and our operational processes such as packing, shipping, and storing our products. Our packaging is designed in a way that is desirable and useful for our customers, and which is in proportion to the size of the order, to always minimize the use of the material. All boxes and paper packaging are made from recycled paper certified by the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) and manufactured in Europe. We dispatch all our orders from our local warehouse and office directly to our customers with an always intend to minimize any possible transport impact. 

If you have any further questions about our sustainability activities, please don’t hesitate to contact us at tellus@coo-women.com.