Bared Footwear Sustainability - SustainabilityTracker.com

What do our labels mean?

More than great looking shoes.

We create mindfully crafted shoes that are good for you and are committed to choosing better materials and moving the industry forward. Fitted in every pair, you will find our biomechanical footbed and hidden support features. But there is more to us than just shoes.

We are busy rethinking footwear for a better future. As Australia’s first B Corp certified footwear label, it is important to us that our shoes are durable but will not outlive us. It is not just about repurposing plastics or offsetting carbon emissions, but about sourcing bio based products and reducing our footprint.

We are proud to drive innovation across every aspect of our business to reshape the future of the footwear industry. Our mission is to continue to evolve, question our processes, and do better. We understand this will not happen overnight, though we are committed to being open, honest, and transparent.

We would not be us without our community. We work with non profit organisations to empower First Nations peoples and help end world hunger. With a team of passionate individuals working to make our brand equally profitable and sustainable, we are dedicated to preserving and restoring the earth for generations to come.

Join us on our mission to do better as we continue to put people and the planet at the heart of how we do things. Our sustainability commitment is not a destination, it is a journey.

Our Pillars
Our pillars define what matters most to us. They guide every decision we make, from design and materials to the way we do business and our impact on the world.

1. PEOPLE
Our vision is to build a business that empowers our team, leads with responsible sourcing, and gives back through meaningful support of community led organisations driving lasting impact.

2. PLANET
We are committed to acting as stewards of the planet, ensuring every decision reflects our responsibility to protect and restore it. Climate action cannot wait. If there is a better option for the Earth, we will take it and make a difference now.

3. PRODUCT
We create great shoes that fit well and people love to wear. Every design choice considers durability, function, and impact. If the right material does not exist, we seek the innovators creating it.
Our internal No Destruction Policy is part of this commitment. We always seek sustainable solutions for Bared stock in our possession that is unsold, damaged, or unwearable, ensuring every product has a responsible end of life pathway.

Our customer service team is available seven days a week to find your perfect pair. Just call or chat with us live. Our promise to you is that we will never leave you in shoes you do not love.

About Bared Footwear

Status

Website
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Employees
100 - 500

Industry
Retail

Country
Australia

Founded
2008

Bared Footwear Sustainability Actions

FDRA Waste Management Program

We are proud to have joined the FDRA Waste Management Program in 2022, a program that aims to minimise waste during the footwear production and manufacturing process. Our main factories in China, which produce more than 85% of our shoes, undertook their first year of this program between April 2022 and May 2023. This program is overseen by a partnership between the Footwear Distributors & Retailers of America (FDRA), the only business and trade association solely dedicated to the footwear industry, and ELEVATE, a global leader in sustainability and supply chain services. The Waste Management Program equips our factories with the tools to recycle and dispose of waste in ways that do not harm the environment. In our first year of the program, our factories’ grades improved from D to B. 78% of all waste produced over the program year was diverted. Our factories were able to improve this rate early in the program, with 90.3% of waste produced in the 2023 calendar year diverted, a rate we intend to continue to improve on. We have successfully diverted 70.26 metric tons of carbon emissions through waste reuse and recycling. We are capturing and recycling over seven types of waste, and our reuse and recycling rates have increased every quarter. In 2025, we proudly rolled out the Waste Management Program across all our tier 1 suppliers, ensuring that every factory we work with is aligned in reducing waste and driving measurable improvements across our entire supply chain.

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Green Team

Our company's Green Team initiative launched in 2022 and has brought together passionate employees dedicated to sustainability and social causes. Regular meetings are held at the warehouse with remote participation available, to exchange ideas and develop initiatives that promote these important values. Our diverse team, representing a range of departments including planning, product, marketing, stores, and customer service, contributes fresh concepts and supports ongoing company efforts to make a positive impact on society.

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Partnering with Clean Agency to utilise the Life-Cycle Assessment Tool

The impact of our products and services on the environment is incredibly important to us. That’s where Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) comes in – a scientific approach analysing a product's entire lifecycle, including energy use, toxins and resources. This method helps us gauge each product's carbon footprint and make improvements to reduce emissions. Our team have worked with the experts at Clean Agency to generate an LCA tool that allows us to track our carbon footprint to make better design and development decisions. By utilising the LCA tool, we can ensure we're efficient with our resources and doing our part to take care of the environment. While the art of carbon calculation is not currently 100% exact, we are aiming to improve our understanding of the carbon going into our shoes, and our knowledge of where our components have come from. This tool provides information that is as accurate as possible at this point in time.

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Bared Footwear Sustainability Commitments

2019

Shoe Recycling

In January 2019, we partnered with Melbourne-based company, Save Our Soles to recycle pre-loved shoes. Since then, we have recycled 26,960 shoes and transformed them into rubber mats that are used for retail flooring.

2019

Eco-Friendly Packaging

In March/April 2019, we improved our packaging by introducing FSC-certified shoe boxes, compostable satchels, hemp bags, eco-tape and Micro-Pak Dri Clay® Kraft Anti-Mould Paks.

2019

The Hunger Project

In June 2019, we partnered with The Hunger Project, a non-profit organisation committed to ending world hunger. To show our support, we created a range of sneakers where $50 from every sneaker sold is donated directly to the Hunger Project. To date, we have donated $369,000 and counting!