Along with your overall score, you'll receive a score based on the following key sustainability areas:
Materials & Manufacturing
The raw materials that are used to make your uniforms is the first place to start, and easiest change to implement. But it is equally important to ensure that your uniforms are made ethically.
Impact & Offsetting
Knowing your impact and using fact-checked data is crucial to sustainability efforts, particularly as greenwashing becomes more prevalent. Using this data, you can then offset your impact. But it is important to first reduce your impact as much as possible.
Circularity
By extending the life of a garment by 9 months, it can reduce carbon, water, and waste footprints by around 20–30% each. This is why it is fundamental to adopt circular systems instead of the typical linear take-make-waste model.
Education
Teaching and empowering students about climate change, fashion and its impacts is so important as they are the future consumers and decision-makers of our society.
Take your school to the next level of sustainability
This Scorecard has been designed based on the four fundamentals of Materials & Manufacturing, Impact & Offsetting, Circularity, and Education (MICE), to help schools along their sustainability journey. It aims to reveal some potential blind spots when it comes to the environmental and social impacts of the traditional school uniform, which up until now have typically been overlooked. We are also offering you a free consultation, to discuss instant, actionable steps on how to reduce your environmental and social impact, and promote positive change.
