Hong Kong based garment manufacturer Crystal Group, one of Asia’s largest apparel makers, have joined the Sustainable Apparel Coalition (SAC), in order to provide data and resources to facilitate SACs sustainable initiatives for the apparel and footwear industry around the world. The company has already completed its first set of five-year targets and is working on its second set, which includes, reducing their carbon footprint per garment by 6%, increasing the use of renewable energy to 5-10%, reducing fresh water consumption per garment by 10%, reducing energy consumption by 5%, reducing paper consumption by 10%, sending no operational waste to landfill and to increase the use of recycled water to 50%.
The SAC has been working to develop the Higg Index, a benchmark which helps companies evaluate material types, products, facilities and processes based on a range of environmental and sustainability rankings.
