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Range

Kids, Menswear, Womenswear

Certifications

None

Bluesign

Bluesign certification promotes sustainable practices in the textile industry and verifies that products are made with safe and environmentally responsible materials and practices.

Fairtrade

Fair Trade USA certification promotes social and environmental sustainability and ensures that farmers and workers receive fair compensation and work under safe and fair conditions.

Fair Wear Foundation (FWF)

A brand that is a member of the Fair Wear Foundation (FWF) commits to FWF verifying and improving their supply chain conditions.

Responsible Wool Standard (RWS)

Responsible Wool Standard (RWS) requires everyone involved (farmers, sellers, and final business-to-business transaction), to be certified. Animal welfare, land management, and social requirements are standards, RWS farmers and ranchers must meet.

Global Recycle Standard (GRS)

Global Recycling Standard (GRS) certification verifies that products are made with recycled materials and meet strict social and environmental criteria.

Global Organic Textile Standard (GOTS)

Global Organic Textile Standard (GOTS) ensures that textile products are made from organic fibers, processed using environmentally friendly methods, and meet strict social and ecological criteria.

Organic Content Standard (OCS)

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.

tentree

tentree is a lifestyle apparel brand that plants ten trees around the globe for every item sold.

Sustainable Materials

Sustainable Packaging

Promotes Circularity

Low Waste

Low Carbon

Gives Back

Last updated on May 30, 2023

Environment

tentree uses a high proportion of lower impact materials, such as GOTS/OCS-certified organic cotton; GRS-certified recycled polyester, hemp, TENCEL™️ Lyocell, which limits its water footprint, chemical use, and wastewater.
A majority of its manufacturing takes place overseas in China, Vietnam, India, and Turkey.
It has a year-round quality collection with few items, and unlike fast fashion brands, micro-trends are not followed.
Its paper packaging is FSC-certified, whereas, its shipping mailers are made from post-consumer recycled plastics with an added chemical compound called BDG®.
To reduce end-of-life textile waste it offers a take-back/recycling program in partnership with SuperCircle and Treet, that recycles and repurposes old tentree clothing.

Maker Wellbeing

Its final production takes place in countries with extreme risk of labour abuse.
It traces most of its supply chain, with a medium proportion of it being certified by WRAP, SMETA/SEDEX, or GOTS.
It visits some of its suppliers.
It has 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.
It does not disclose whether living wages are paid to workers in its supply chain.

Animal Welfare

Responsible Wool Standard (RWS) certifies a majority of the virgin wool it sources.
The recyled wool it sources is Global Recycled Standard (GRS) certified

Gives Back

For every item sold tentree plants ten trees.
It provides underprivileged communities hundreds of thousands of days worth of employment and restores ecosystems globally.

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Areas for Improvement

It needs to ensure workers in its supply chain are paid living wages.
It needs disclose what exactly is done to reduce/eliminate hazardous chemicals from its supply chain.