Baukjen launches a sustainability index

 

The womenswear brand Baukjen has introduced an environmentally-friendly initiative. It has launched a Sustainability Index which gives customers the opportunity to access environmental and social impact scores for each product in its collection. This will help them make more informed decisions when purchasing from the brand.

The aim behind this is to offer clients a higher level of transparency so that they can better understand its supply chain such as how material choices and manufacturing contribute to the overall impact of each Baukjen garment. Different measurements are used to determine the overall score. Higg tools created by the Sustainable Apparel Coalition have been leveraged and five environmental factors are taken into consideration. These make up 70% of the overall score and the remaining 30% are social ones.

Thus, each Baukjen product from the womenswear brand receives a rating that ranges from bad to excellent with regards to its impact on global warming, water use, resource depletion eutrophication, use of chemicals, traceability and people’s wellbeing. The higher the score, the more sustainable a product is for the planet and for everyone.

The Baukjen sustainability index was first created as an in-house tool to compare fibres and how it manufactures its clothes to help the brand highlight areas of improvement to become more sustainable. Now, the brand hopes to help the environment with it.

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Baukjen helps customers make more informed decisions

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