Parachute Home

Modern bedding and bath essentials

Parachute Home
Parachute Home's Sustainability Rating:

    Materials

    3 / 5

    Slow Consumption

    3 / 5

    Accountability

    3 / 5

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Where Parachute Home is doing well: Parachute Home helps keeps garments out of landfill by offering a warranty. Parachute Home has previously reported on its emissions impacts and offsets.

Where Parachute Home has room to grow: Parachute Home is still reliant on high emissions materials. Parachute Home shares limited information on its supply chain and labor practices.

Detailed Summary

Materials

3 / 5

How is this brand using sustainable materials, sourcing, and shipping to reduce its impact?

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  • Raw Materials

    Parachute reports using 35% preferred materials, including lower impact fibers like organic cotton, recycled polyester, tencel lyocell, and RDS-certified down. The brand also uses high impact fibers, like conventional cotton. It aims to reduce increase its percentage of preferred materials to 70% by 2025, but Commons could not find reported progress against this goal.

  • Energy Use & Production

    Commons could not find information on this brand's energy use. Parachute Home sources and manufactures its materials globally, which is standard practice in the fashion industry.

  • Packaging & Distribution

    Parachute has made efforts to reduce the amount of virgin plastic in its packaging by including recycled LDPE and recycled polyester. It also uses FSC-certified paper-based materials.

Slow Consumption

3 / 5

Does this brand lower demand for new items by encouraging conscious consumption and facilitating the long-term use of its products?

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  • Repair & Care

    Parachute Home does not offer repair services or support. It does offer warranties for its products. It also gives detailed and environmentally conscious care instructions for its garments.

  • Take Back Programs

    Parachute Home has a take back program that accepts any brand's items for recycling or downcycling. Parachute Home does not share details on the efficacy or impact of this program.

  • Slow Fashion

    Parachute Home offers a core evergreen collection, with limited new additions and releases. While its mattresses are made-to-order, its other products are bulk produced.

  • Marketing

    Commons is still analyzing this brand's marketing emails.

Accountability

3 / 5

Is this brand transparent about its sustainability goals and how it’s working toward them?

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  • Transparency & Reporting

    Parachute Home has a sustainability webpage with information about materials, labor practices, circularity. This page was last updated in 2023. Commons could not find an annual sustainability report for this brand.

  • Emissions Tracking

    Parachute was a Climate Neutral certified brand by the Change Climate Project. However, this certification has since lapsed. Through this certification, the brand has previiously internally measured and publicly reported its company-level emissions, including a breakdown by scope. in 2022, its estimated emissions footprint was 23,177 tCO2e.

  • Emissions Targets

    Parachute states it has a goal to reduce its emissions in alignment with global targets. However, Commons could not find specific emissions reductions targets for this brand. In the past, Parachute compensated for its emissions with verified carbon offset credits. However, its Climate Neutral certification has since lapsed.

  • Supply Chain & Labor

    Parachute publishes some of the locations of its final production stage partners (Tier 1). It states that it has a code of conduct, but does not publicly share it. The brand requires audits of its partners.

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