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telegraph.co.ukA post shared by Sustainable Apparel Coalition (@apprlcoalition)There’s genuine weight behind this effort though, as it’s not H&M that determines the score of its products.
It’s the Sustainable Apparel Coalition (SAC) and its technology partner Higg, who have spent the past decade developing a metric known as the Higg Index. “Scores range from ‘baseline’ to 3.” H&M explains in a press release. “Baseline scores are given to products made from conventional materials and scores of 1,2 and 3 are given to products made with materials that have lower environmental impacts.
On each product, customers will also see detailed data on impacts relating to water use, global warming, fossil fuel use and water pollution.”Currently the six items with Higg.
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