Hennes & Mauritz (H&M) has recently published a detailed 2024 sustainability report that exhibits the company’s commit to sustainability. H&M’s sustainability report highlights that the brand has utilised 89 per cent recycled or sustainably sourced materials for their operations, marking a significant share of 29.5 per cent recycled materials alone out of the total.
The company achieved their company target of utilising 30 per cent recycled materials by 2025 by 2024 itself, underscoring their continued efforts towards climate crisis. In addition to this H&M has reduced 41 per cent of their greenhouse gas emissions, reduced the usage of plastic packaging by 54 per cent, 9.5 per cent drop in the use of freshwater for garment supply, which marks the company achieving its sustainability targets one year ahead.
In addition to this, their garment suppliers have reduced the utilisation of coal boilers to 27 factories which from 46 factories in 2023 and 118 in 2022. The clothing company is aggressively chasing the target of entirely phasing out the on-site coal usage by 2026.
CEO H&M Group, Daniel Ervér, has expressed satisfaction for the efforts made to demonstrate H&M Group’s sustainability solutions and further emphasized sustainability being at the core of the company.
The Sustainability Director for the H&M Group, Leyla Ertur, further emphasised their ambitious sustainability agenda and reiterated their continued efforts towards using cleaner and less energy across their supply chain also achieve strong results in their decarbonisation journey which aligns with their ‘science-based targets’.
To protect the welfare of more than a million workers, H&M Group renewed its Global Framework Agreement with IF Metall, the Swedish trade union, and IndustriALL Global Union.
