KNOW YOUR IMPACT

#knowyourimpact

You may wonder as to why is it important to know impact of a product.

Ever heard of Carbon Neutrality? 

Simply put, Carbon Neutrality is a state of Net-Zero CO2 emissions. Basically, when a brand or a company manages to remove the amount of CO2 from the environment, equivalent to what was emitted by them. 

CO2 emitted - CO2 offsetted = Carbon Neutrality

Our goal is to achieve Carbon Neutrality and we’re closer to it everyday. Calculating a product’s environmental impact helps us understand the amount of CO2 to be offsetted, which then can make us Carbon Neutral.

Historically, the fashion industry has been associated with excessive consumerism, extremely high costs, elitism, or guilty pleasure. As a slow fashion-tech marketplace that truly believes ‘Green’ is the new luxury, we calculate the impact index of the entire value chain.

UpcycleLuxe is able to perform a fact-based evaluation that calculates the true cost of fashion and the sustainability strength of each brand and its products. By measuring your environmental footprint and comparing it to traditional industrial practices, we can show you the environmental savings you make when you purchase a product from our store. The evaluation consists of quantitative and qualitative questions, each of which is integrated into the 7 UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and categorised into our 6 strengths of sustainability, i.e. Water, Air, Energy, Materials, Conditions of Work and Commitment.

We also dive deep into the entire supply chain and evaluate the life-cycle footprint of each product, right from the production of raw materials to its management and recyclability. Below are the measures that form an epitome of our analysis derived from the strength of sustainability

Upcycleluxe aims to encourage and guide brands to become leaders in the field of environmental transparency and action towards our mission. The sustainability evaluation questions are investigated on reliable sources, such as the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the World Resources Institute, the World Bank, Fashion Industry Pulse, the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, and many other research papers and scientific working groups reports. Most of the issues are based on and adapted from well-known standard organisations such as the Global Reporting Initiative, the CDP, and the UN Global Compact. These organisations commonly assess the sustainability performance of businesses on issues such as climate change and human rights. Some of the questions have been adapted to the field of fashion and textiles, as standard organisations do not specifically address their questions to these industries.

The UpcycleLuxe Sustainability Evaluation links the contribution of SDGs to each question. The 17 Sustainable Development Goals ( SDGs) identify global sustainable development priorities and objectives for 2030 and aim to unite global efforts around a shared set of goals and objectives. SDGs enables companies to explore relevant indicators that may be useful in measuring and reporting the sustainability practices and development of the organisation.