Switzerland-based environmental sustainability consulting group Quantis has announced the official joining of Sustainable Apparel Coalition (SAC) and Austrian fibre company Lenzing in the World Apparel and Footwear Lifecycle Database (WALDB) as partners. WALDB is a pre-competitive global initiative founded by Quantis to provide a robust and credible database for environmental impact assessment and foot-printing in the fashion industry.
The organization consists of a group of industry leaders that have come together to collaboratively measure the environmental impacts created by materials used in the apparel and footwear supply chains.
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Rainer Zah, Managing Director and Project Lead – WALDB, Quantis Zurich states, “I have witnessed a clear shift from the apparel industry – one that is characterized by a sharp increase in interest in developing a more holistic and quantitative approach to environmental sustainability. Solid metrics serve as a guide to organizations’ sustainability strategies allowing them to make good decisions, based on hotspots across their operations, to make the most impact. The WALDB database will allow companies to assess their impacts, make strategic decisions, and engage their supply chains based on facts.”
The aim of WALDB is to bring together partners in the industry, in an open and pre- competitive dialogue, to address the needs and challenges of environmental data collection and availability. In this initiative, the partners will work together to expand the database with reliable data on the processes along the apparel and footwear value chains.
