Goals and progress
Environment | Our ECO focus
Given our size, everyday activities such as printing documents or shipping garments in plastic bags can have a significant environmental impact. By taking a close look at our practices, we’re finding new ways to reduce waste and use natural resources wisely.
Some of our key initiatives in this area include:
Solid Waste and Recycling Program: We continue to reduce solid waste across our stores, distribution centers and headquarters offices.
Reduced corrugate cardboard use: We’re moving to new containers at our distribution centers that use less corrugate and are made of a recyclable material. We anticipate that this program will reduce cardboard waste by 57,000 tons and save approximately $20 million each year. By changing our shipping practices, we also expect to eliminate 63 million yards of plastic strapping.
Clean Water Program: Making denim requires chemicals, dyes and a significant amount of water. We’ve made progress in helping the denim laundries with which we work to treat wastewater so that it’s safe and clean when it leaves the facility.
Recycling at malls: Much of our waste comes from our fleet of stores — and most of our stores are in shopping malls. We’re working to recycle store waste at shopping malls by collaborating with developers and other like minded retailers.
Our waste-reduction initiatives are likely to evolve once the results of the first phase of our environmental footprint assessment are complete in 2009.
