The environmental sustainability consulting group Quantis has announced that the Sustainable Apparel Coalition (SAC) and Austrian fiber company, Lenzing have officially joined the World Apparel and Footwear Lifecycle Database (WALDB) as partners. WALDB, a pre-competitive global initiative founded by Quantis, will provide a robust and credible database for environmental impact assessment and foot printing in the fashion industry.
The aim of WALDB is to bring together partners in the industry in an open and pre-competitive dialogue, to address the needs and challenges of environmental data collection and availability. In this initiative, the partners will work together to expand the database with reliable data on the processes along the apparel and footwear value chains.
SAC and Lenzing join Hugo Boss, Legero/Think! Shoes, the Swiss Federal Office for the Environment (FOEN) and BSD Consulting, a group of industry leaders that have come together to collaboratively measure the environmental impact created by materials used in the apparel and footwear supply chains. The inclusion of these two new key players in the apparel industry and leaders in sustainability illustrates the need for more robust and credible data from the industry’s value chains. Data on the environmental impacts in supply chains is sparse, yet it is essential for organizations to drive metrics-based sustainability programs. WALDB will solve this data challenge.
