{"id":9179,"date":"2020-05-12T09:10:11","date_gmt":"2020-05-12T08:10:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/everpress.com\/blog\/?p=9179"},"modified":"2020-05-12T09:15:38","modified_gmt":"2020-05-12T08:15:38","slug":"everpress-sustainability-2-0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everpress.com\/blog\/everpress-sustainability-2-0\/","title":{"rendered":"Everpress Sustainability 2.0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Only by proactively driving ourselves to change do we feel comfortable using the word sustainability. We believe that action is the only way to work towards a more sustainable future, and in order to do that we need to look holistically at every part of our business, from our team, to our community, to our supply chain.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">there\u2019s so much more we can be doing.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201c<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You see Burberry burning<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u00a336.8M worth of unsold dead stock and it makes you scratch your head. How are companies getting away with this when we know just how damaging the fashion industry is for the planet? That said, <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I\u2019m really excited for the next few years. A big focus for us is becoming more sustainable, in every way. The pre-order model had put us in a really good place already, but there\u2019s so much more we can be doing.\u201d &#8211; Alex Econs, Everpress Founder.\u00a0<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">That\u2019s why, when it came to putting together our <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/everpress.com\/sustainability\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>sustainability roadmap<\/strong><\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, we focused not just on creating a timeline to benchmark where we\u2019re aiming to be, but on each area where we can have an impact too. Together, <\/span><b>Environment, Community, Team, Governance<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, underline the attitude and standards of proactive transparency that we aim for.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The roadmap is an ever-evolving work in progress. At present its goals include: <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Phasing out non-ethical garment suppliers from our offering<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Transferring to sustainable packaging by the end of this year\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Launching our own ethically produced T-shirt by Jan 2021<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Achieving B-Corp accreditation by 2022<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And finally, by 2025, we\u2019ll become climate and water positive.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But, as with everything we do, we\u2019ll be constantly revising and looking for where we need to improve, to make sure we\u2019re getting better. We\u2019re always open to your insights and input on this too, so if you have any suggestions and tips on us meeting our goals, or anything you believe we should be doing that we aren\u2019t, please don\u2019t hesitate <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/everpress.com\/contact\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">to get in touch<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Read More: <a href=\"https:\/\/everpress.com\/blog\/where-to-from-here-fashion-industry-roundtable\/https:\/\/everpress.com\/blog\/where-to-from-here-fashion-industry-roundtable\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A Fashion Industry Roundtable<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From today until 2025; our five year plan to become a fully sustainable and ethical clothing platform.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":8527,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9179"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/everpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/everpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9179"}],"version-history":[{"count":25,"href":"https:\/\/everpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9246,"href":"https:\/\/everpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9179\/revisions\/9246"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}