JCPenney serves customers at more than 650 stores across the United States and Puerto Rico, while Decathlon operates about 1,697 stores in 60 countries and regions. Both retailers have joined the ZDHC as brand contributors.
As JCPenney continues its sustainability journey to better understand and minimise the impact of its value chain on the planet, the company looks to the ZDHC Foundation as a partner to steer it toward clarity on how to best remove hazardous chemicals and enhance responsible sourcing and manufacturing practices.
“The work to remove hazardous chemicals from the global apparel, footwear, and textiles value chain will only succeed through a collaborative partnership between customers and suppliers,” says Phil Boyett, responsible sourcing director at JCPenney. “We are pleased to join, leverage, and lend our effort to making consumer goods without harmful chemicals.”
Since its first Restricted Substance List in 1998, Decathlon has been acting actively regarding the chemical risk, to guarantee the safety of users, coworkers, suppliers’ workers and the environment during the manufacturing, transportation, handling and use of Decathlon’s products.
To go further, it is necessary for Decathlon to be aligned with the main actors in the industry and to have access to the most advanced tools to reduce chemical impact in the value chain, ZDHC says.
“Decathlon would like to engage its value chain in a more sustainable way to manage chemicals and to draw tomorrow’s ethics and its requirements. As a contributor, Decathlon will act to reduce the impact of apparel and footwear industries on the environment and on human health to be aligned with Decathlon’s purpose: to be useful to people and to their planet,” says Melany Auger, chemical safety manager at Decathlon.
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By GlobalDataMeanwhile, Sudeep Industries has joined the ZDHC as a contributor (VCA from the chemical industry), in addition to garment manufacturer Echotex Ltd (VCA from the textile, footwear, apparel and leather industry), and Framis Italia (VCA from the textile and apparel industry), a provider of fully integrated heat-bonding applications and solutions to the clothing industry.
“Since we are representing a long segment of the supply chain, [by] joining the ZDHC Roadmap to Zero Programme we would have the chance to build a solid and real sustainability asset. This asset could be offered to our customers as the necessary added value that they will increasingly have to maintain towards consumers and investors,” notes Francesca Salotto, CEO Framis Italia Spa.
UK high street retailer River Island joined the ZDHC Community as a brand last month.
