Nike plans to use 100 per cent renewable energy by 2025. Currently, Nike already uses 80 per cent renewable energy. Nike is looking to improve its sustainability credentials by focusing on materials. Almost 80 per cent of the brand’s carbon footprint comes from the sourcing materials and manufacturing. Nike is one of the largest users of recycled polyester in the world.

The company did its first recycled garment in 2006. But now recycled polyester alone reuses more than a billion plastic bottles a year. Space Hippie, a new shoe line Nike debuted last year, is made of 90 per cent recycled materials. Seventy per cent of all products made by Nike have at least some recycled material in them, but Nike wants to aim higher. Nike tracks the percentage of recycled material used in each product. Nike has an alternative to leather called Flyleather. Currently, Flyleather is made from 50 per cent recycled leather material.

While Nike’s commitment to 100 per cent renewable energy by 2025 applies only to own offices, stores and factories, encouraging manufacturing partners to make the switch to renewable energy will help bring down the company’s overall emissions. Nike has also been focused on using the weight it has in the manufacturing space to influence its partners.