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Portugal

Small Business

Range

Menswear, Womenswear

Certifications

None

OEKO-TEX® STANDARD 100

The Organic Content Standard (OCS) applies to any non-food product containing 95-100 percent organic material. It verifies the presence and amount of organic material in a final product and tracks the flow of the raw material from its source to the final product.

Climate Neutal

Climate Neutral Certified verifies that companies have measured and offset their entire carbon footprint, promoting climate action and reducing greenhouse gas emissions

SCS Carbon Neutral

SCS Carbon Neutral Certified verifies that products and services have a net zero carbon footprint, promoting sustainable practices and reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

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Climate Neutral Certified verifies that companies have measured and offset their entire carbon footprint, promoting climate action and reducing greenhouse gas emissions

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8000Kicks

8000Kicks is a shoe and accessories brand, making its products using strong hemp fibres.

Vegan

Gives Back

Sustainable Materials

Sustainable Packaging

Low Waste

Last updated on June 15, 2024

Environment

8000kicks makes use of a high-proportion of low-impact materials such as organic hemp, hemp and organic cotton.
They have worked to increase their use of renewable energy in lieu of polluting sources,with their China factory operating 30%-40% on renewables and their portugal factory operating 45%-55% on the same.
Their manufacturing takes place overseas in China (65%) and Portugal (35%).
They have a small, year-round quality collection and unlike fast fashion brands, micro-trends are not followed.
They use PLA-based corn starch mailer bags and recycled cardboard boxes to ship products.
They use DHL, DPD or Dutch Postal Service for shipping. They have vowed to reduce their carbon footprint.
They have a take-back and Recycling/repurposing program. Also, they have a mix of recycling and donation of textile scrap program, Reuse and Resale Program along with Repair and Alteration Services
They measure their carbon footprint.
They invest in capturing CO2 with hemp farms and the plantation of trees. Every new plant removes an average of 50 kilograms of CO2 from the atmosphere each year during its growth period of 20–50 years.
The average emissions for a pair of running shoes is 14Kg of CO2. 8000Kicks has managed to reduce that to 4.1 Kg of CO2.

Maker Wellbeing

A majority of their final production takes place in a country with extreme risk of labour abuse.
They have a Code of Conduct for its suppliers, based on ILOs Four Fundamental Freedoms: no child labor, no forced labor, no discrimination, and employees having the right to association and collective bargaining.
The disclosed average salary of their workers in the final stage of production, appears to be above the living wage, but there is no evidence on whether their suppliers are audited.
They trace most of their supply chain.

Animal Welfare

Their entire range of products is vegan.

Gives Back

They plant trees around the world as a measure to offset its carbon footprint.
The outsoles of their shoes are made of algae, which helps in curbing the problem of algal bloom.

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Areas for Improvement

It would be useful if the brand could add its Climate Neutral certification and SCS Carbon Neutral certification on the website.
It would be useful if the brand could include the fact of payment of living wages to workers across the supply chain in its code of conduct, and provide documentary evidence for the same.
It would be helpful if the brand could provide an update on the progress on its proposed recycling initiative.