Rep Your Water
Fishing-inspired apparel and accessories, conservation focused
Rep Your Water's Sustainability Rating:
Materials
Slow Consumption
Accountability
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Fair
Where Rep Your Water is doing well: Rep Your Water publicly reports on its emissions impact and is climate neutral certified. It has been a Zero Waste operation since 2017.
Where Rep Your Water has room to grow: It is still reliant on high emissions, fossil-fuel based synthetic materials. It does not have current emissions reduction targets. Rep Your Water does not publicly share information about its supply chain partners or a supplier code of conduct.
Detailed Summary
Materials
How is this brand using sustainable materials, sourcing, and shipping to reduce its impact?
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Raw Materials
Rep Your Waater only makes select garments with low emissions fibers, including upcycled cotton. The brand currently uses majority high impact fibers, including conventional wool, nylon, spandex, conventional cotton, polyester, and acrylic. It plans to reduce its use of these high impact fiber, with the goal of 25% of garments including recycled or biodegradable content by 2025. It has reported progress against this goal.
Energy Use & Production
Commons could not find information on this brand's energy use. Commons could not find information on this brand's sourcing or production. For fashion brands, we assume a standard global sourcing and production practice.
Packaging & Distribution
Rep Your Water has made efforts to reduce the amount of virgn plastic in its packaging. The brand's eco-friendly packaging materials include FSC-certified material. It has made efforts to minimize its packaging by removing poly and glassine bags, where possible. It provides customers with a detailed guide of how to dispose of or recycle different packaging types and has completed its goal to move 100% of packaging to recycled or recyclable.
Slow Consumption
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
Rep Your Water does not offer repair services or support. It does offer a lifetime warranty specific only to its socks. It gives care instructions to extend garment lifespan.
Take Back Programs
Commons could not find information on any take back programs.
Slow Fashion
The brand limits new additions and releases and has been a Zero Waste operation since 2017, which means it has diverted over 90% of its waste from the landfill via recycling, composting and product donations.
Marketing
Commons is still analyzing this brand's marketing emails.
Accountability
Is this brand transparent about its sustainability goals and how it’s working toward them?
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Transparency & Reporting
Rep Your Water has a prominent sustainability page, with details on materials, packaging, and current initiatives and progress. This page was last updated in 2024 Rep Your Water has a detailed annual report, with a clear, impact driven strategy and progress reporting. Its latest annual report is from 2023.
Emissions Tracking
Rep Your Water is Climate Neutral certified via the Change Climate Project. It internally measures and publicly reports its company-wide emissions, including a breakdown by scope. In 2023, its estimated emissions footprint was 1,488 tCO2e.
Emissions Targets
Rep Your Water has a medium-term target to reduces its Scope 1 and 2 emissions by 50% by 2030. It does not appear on track to achieve this goal. It does not have a Scope 3 target, though the brand has commited to actions that would reduce its Scope 3 emissions. It offsets its full value chain emissions with vetted offset projects.
Supply Chain & Labor
Rep Your Water does not publish information about its supply chain partners. It does not have or does not make public any supplier code of conduct.
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