Allbirds

Allbirds reports a high proportion of its garments are made with lowest impact fibers, 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.

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.

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.

Allbirds does not offer repair services or a warranty. It gives detailed care instructions to extend garment lifespan.

Allbirds has a take back program that accepts this brand's shoes for resale. It does not share details on the efficacy or impact of these programs.

Allbirds offers a core evergreen collection and limits new additions and releases.

Commons is currently evaluating its marketing emails.

Allbirds has a prominent sustainability page, with details on materials, current initiatives and progress, energy use, emissions measurement, emissions reduction, circularity This page was last updated in 2024 Allbirds publishes annual sustainability reports, with stated strategy and progress reporting. Its latest annual report is from 2023.

Allbirds is Climate Neutral Certified through the Change Climate Project. It internally measures and publicly reports both its company-level and product-level emissions. Allbirds has also made their carbon footprint calculator open source for customers and other organizations to utilize.

Allbirds has science-aligned, SBTi-approved emission reduction targets. It has not shared progress on these targets in the last year. Allbirds offsets its full company emissions with high-quality offset projects.

Allbirds publishes information about its final production partners, but shares limited information on its material suppliers. It has a supplier code of conduct, which includes provisions protecting collective bargaining, prohibiting forced labor, and requiring partner audits. However, it does not disallow contracting or mention a living wage.