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Zeeman Sustainability Actions

Published impact reporting

Over the years, we've worked closely with Zeeman textielSupers to map their social and environmental impact: building a strong foundation of impact data and insight that now supports their bold sustainability ambitions to become 'zuinig', both affordable and sustainable. Their latest impact report is more than a set of metrics.

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Expanded living wage programme

The current living wage program has been expanded to ten partner factories. This means that the company, for its own share of production, supplements the salaries of the employees to an amount with which they can meet their necessities of life (the legal minimum wage is often not high enough).

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Mapped supply chain impact

Zeeman also mapped out the environmental impact of the supply chain for the first time, exceeded its own goal for more sustainable material use and put a buyer on the circular transition.

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Collected clothing for reuse

Clothing is now collected in more than a thousand of the 1,352 branches with recycling organization Het Goed. Some of them find their way back to the Zeeman stores, on hangers in the newly introduced vintage departments.

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Used more sustainable materials

93 percent of the cotton and 40 percent of the polyester we use is now more sustainable. We buy most of our cotton through Better Cotton, the polyester is recycled.

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Worked with GoodShipping

However, Bas Hoekstra and Arnoud van Vliet have discovered that working with GoodShipping's insetting solution is surprisingly straightforward.

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