Managing Impact
Within the lifecycle of its products there are two points in the design and development process where a significant difference to the company's environmental footprint can be made. The first is in improving the materials that go into the products, and the second is in tackling pollution in factories.
Improving materials
The company’s approach is to seek to design out polluting materials and processes and increasingly to adopt sustainable materials instead. The adidas Group has various initiatives in place that help to achieve its goal of improving materials.
These include avoiding raw materials from any endangered or threatened species, eliminating PVC and seeking ways to include more recycled materials in our products.
Tackling pollution
We have limited control over the direct environmental impacts of the manufacturing process and how our suppliers act. The best way we can influence the environmental impacts at our suppliers’ factories is to encourage the introduction of environmental management systems, and we have made implementing an environmental management system mandatory for all our core suppliers.
Restricted Substances Standards
The Group has a strict policy on controlling restricted substances, which are those that cause harm, or are suspected to cause harm, to human health or the environment. Our policy is that suppliers must avoid using restricted substances to ensure that our products are environmentally safe. Our standards and policies on restricted substances are the ‘A-01 Requirements’.
Please download the A-01 Requirements here:
Find more detail on our environmental management and our approach to controlling restricted substances in our 2007 online report: Striving to improve performance.
You might also be interested in reading our 2007 review: Giving 110%. It takes a broader view than our traditional reports and discusses the social and political context for our work. One of the topics it covers is climate change. The others are big business and sustainability, preparing for major sporting events and ‘Made in China’.
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