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Footwear expert says outdoor can be sustainability model

19/01/2012
The footwear operations manager for Brooks Sports, Chase Mueller, will be among the speakers at a special event on sustainable packaging, which takes place in Florida in March. He will argue that the outdoor sector can be a sustainability model for the whole of the apparel industry.

An initiative that makes him optimistic about the fugure is the Eco-Index project. He recently told the conference organisers, Pira International, that the index has morphed into "the core of the Sustainable Apparel Coalition (SAC) tool".

SAC, whose founder members include a number of companies in the sports and outdoor footwear supply chain (adidas, Patagonia, WL Gore, Teijin Fibres, ASICS, New Balance, Puma, Columbia Sportswear, Pentland Brands, VF Corporation, HanesBrands, Lenzing, DuPont, Nike and Mountain Equipment Co-op), seeks to build a common approach for measuring and evaluating apparel and footwear sustainability, highlighting priorities for action and opportunities for technological innovation.

Measuring and evaluating means a scoring system that is credible and transparent and it is this function that Mr Mueller says the Eco-Index is fulfilling.


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