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PROJECT ZERO

 

OUR MORE ENVIRONMENTALLY CONSIDERED FUTURE

The footwear, clothing and accessories we sell, along with the general nature of our business, combine to create an environmental and social footprint, this is an inescapable reality. Avoiding in every way  any “greenwash” communication, we are exploring the various courses of action that can be taken both immediately and future planning to reduce our environmental footprint.  We are determined to ensure we are part of the solution and have a considered and honest environmental strategy in place for all our business functions.

We also are extremely mindful that the durability and performance of all our products should not be affected or have any detrimental effect on our consumers experience. Our future operations, product development and sourcing challenge will be directly offset with our environmental impact.

Every part of our business will be considered with our environmental impact in the forefront of our minds.

PROJECT ZERO launched January 2020 based on SBT (Science Based Targets) to achieve two objectives:

  • Carbon Neutral Operations within our offices, warehousing and supporting services in the UK.
  • Deliver to market THE most environmentally considered, functionally fit products & packaging.

Carbon Neutral Goals

  • Audit completed July 2020 to ascertain current carbon footprint within our operations, based on 2019 emissions.
  • These results provide a target to aim & achieve CARBON NEUTRALITY over the next 5 years.
  • Recommendations will be applied to ALL aspects of Operations, e.g. Fuel & energy supplies, reduced waste, increasing recycling & reviewing company vehicles.

 Environmentally Considered Product & Packaging

Our shoe / boot boxes are already produced from 100% recycled materials.

Our shoe / boot boxes can be 100% recycled.

 Our future goals will be to:

  • Continuously review of all product RDD engineering & packaging to increase & improve recycled materials used.
  • Our goal is to remove all single use plastics, only use plant-based dyes & Kraft card from certified audited sources.
  • Developing stronger factory relationships & identifying future key partners who only have strong ethical, environmental and certified audited procedures.
  • Continuously review all transportation & shipping to ensure we use the most efficient and environmentally considered options.

We recognise that we’ve not reached the summit on our sustainability journey yet. We’re fully committed to taking all the necessary steps to ensure that as leading brands we do our part to protect the environment so that future generations can continue to get outside and enjoy our natural wonders.

Check out our new collection of sustainable footwear via:

https://hi-tec.co.uk/collections/environmentally-considered-with-100-recycled-fabric-uppers-footwear-collection