Little Green Radicals' Sustainability Rating:
Good
Little Green Radicals has a Good rating because it intentionally minimizes resource use and environmentally harmful materials.
Little Green Radicals uses a majority of lower emissions and/or certified materials in its products, specifically GOTS organic cotton, recycled polyester, and YULEX foam. It takes responsibility for the full lifecycle of its products by offering repair guides, a 1-year warranty, and a take back partnership for resale and recycling. The brand also provides transparency into its supply chain, including its Fairtrade certified partners.
Though it's a small brand with likely limited resources, we hope to see it share more information on its energy strategy, emissions, or reduction efforts in the future.
Raw Materials
Little Green Radicals uses a majority of lower emissions or certified materials, specifically GOTS organic cotton, recycled polyester, and YULEX foam. It uses materials that have certifications from GOTS, OEKO-TEX, Fair Rubber, and PEFC/FSC. Commons couldn't find any stated plans to increase low emissions materials and/or decrease synthetic materials, but this brand's materials mix is already strong.
Energy Use & Production
Little Green Radicals shares that one of its suppliers uses some renewable energy. Little Green Radicals doesn't share targets for expanding its use of renewable energy. Little Green Radicals sources and manufactures its materials globally, which is standard practice in the textile industry.
Packaging & Distribution
Little Green Radicals doesn't appear to have made efforts to minimize the amount of material used in its packaging. It's working to reduce its use of plastic, and uses eco-friendly materials in its product containers, including ones that are compostable, recycled, and recyclable.
Repair & Care
Little Green Radicals offers free repair options, including: shared repair guides. Little Green Radicals offers a 1 year warranty. It gives basic care instructions that can help extend product lifespan.
Take Back Programs
Little Green Radicals has a take back partnership with TheLittleLoop called ReLoop. This program accepts any brand's clothes for resale or recycling. It doesn't share details on the efficacy of this program.
Slow Fashion
Little Green Radicals offers some products across multiple seasons but also releases new items seasonally each year. It limits overproduction and waste via reusing waste/deadstock at one of its suppliers.
Marketing
Commons is still evaluating this brand's marketing emails.
Transparency & Reporting
Little Green Radicals has a prominent sustainability page with high-level details on its climate strategy. Like many small brands with limited resources, it doesn't publish an annual sustainability report.
Emissions Tracking
Commons couldn't find information on this brand's emissions tracking. This process can be an expensive undertaking for small brands.
Targets & Offsets
Commons couldn't find emissions reduction targets for this brand. Commons couldn't find evidence that this brand offsets any emissions.
Supply Chain & Labor
Little Green Radicals publishes information about its supply chain partners, disclosing their names and locations across Tier 2-3 (materials and packaging sourcing). It doesn't publicly share a supplier code of conduct, but does disclose its alignment with Fairtrade policies. It has labor certifications, including Fairtrade.
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