Allbirds' Sustainability Rating:
Best
Allbirds is a sustainability leader in its industry. It intentionally minimizes resource use and environmentally harmful materials while also innovating on industry standards.
Allbirds reports that a high proportion of its garments are made with lowest impact materials, including chitosan fiber, FSC-certified TENCEL Lyocell, and green EVA. It helps keep products out of landfill by offering a resale program. The brand further limits its waste by using 100% plastic-free packaging.
Allbirds was one of the first companies to be certified by Change Climate. It shares its full emissions, as well as product-level carbon footprinting, and has SBTi-approved reduction targets.
Raw Materials
Allbirds reports a high proportion of its garments are made with lowest impact materials, including chitosan fiber, FSC-certified TENCEL Lyocell, and green EVA. It does not use any leather and has developed a plant-based leather as an alternative. It plans to further reduce its reliance on high impact fibers by 2025, though Commons was not able to find recent reported progress on this goal within the last year.
Energy Use & Production
Allbirds provides specific information on the amount of renewable energy used in its stores and offices, but not in its production sites. It has a target to reach 100% renewable energy for their production facilities by 2025 by purchasing renewable energy credits. Commons was not able to find recent reported progress on this goal within the last year.
Packaging & Distribution
Allbirds uses 100% plastic-free packaging. Its eco-friendly packaging materials include FSC-certified cardboard. It has undergone specific effots to minimize its packaging, including reducing the weight of its packaging.
Repair & Care
Allbirds does not offer repair services or a warranty. It gives detailed care instructions to extend garment lifespan.
Take Back Programs
Allbirds has a take back program, ReRun, that accepts this brand's shoes for resale. It does not share details on the efficacy or impact of this program.
Slow Fashion
Allbirds offers a core evergreen collection and limits new additions and releases.
Marketing
Commons is still evaluating this brand's marketing emails.
Transparency & Reporting
Allbirds has a prominent sustainability page, with details onmaterials, current initiatives and progress, energy use, emissions measurement, emissions reduction, circularity Allbirds does not have a sustainability page. Larger brands have a greater responsibility to make this information clearly available due to its outsized impact. This page was last updated in 2024 Allbirds has a detailed annual report, with a clear, impact driven strategy and progress reporting. Its latest annual report is from 2023.
Emissions Tracking
Allbirds internally measures its overall emissions. It reports emissions on a product level. Allbirds identifies its top driver of emissions, by including detailed breakdowns.
Emissions Targets
Supply Chain & Labor
Supply Chain & Labor
Allbirds does not publish information about its supply chain partners. It has a supplier code of conduct, which includes provisions audits of partners, allowing collective bargaining.
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