Underwear For Humanity Sustainability Profile

What do our labels mean?

Great Undies with Great Impact

Underwear for Humanity uses an essential consumable product, underwear, to create a model of giving and regeneration.Our social and environmental impact is a primary measure of our success. 

We focus our funds on planetary good, such as recycling underwear from all brands that would otherwise end up in landfill and developing our own unique materials via material science to
lower our emissions. Our products are 50% lower in emissions than industry standard. 

Our focus on social impact includes giving underwear to women’s shelters and various charities through our one-for-one underwear donation program, 50c paid to Aboriginal groups as rent payment for the land we work on and a work training program partnership for our pick and pack.

We believe that every touch point is an opportunity to be responsible and give back.

About Underwear For Humanity

Status

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Employees
1 - 5

Industry
Apparel & Fashion

Country
Australia

Founded
2020

Underwear For Humanity Sustainability Actions

B Corp Certified

B Corp Certification confirmed that our community and the environment are stakeholders in our impact-driven business model and our commitment to balancing social and planetary good in everything we do against the highest standards of transparency and accountability. We are now part of a global network of businesses shifting our global economy from a system that profits few to one that benefits all.

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Evidence

Ethical Manufacturing

The garment workers that make our products are paid 60% above the living wage, by a BSCI certified factory that uses solar to help power their manufacturing. We also do regular factory visits and assessments of systems to ensure good working conditions.

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Underwear Recycling

Each year, Australia sees 204 million imported underwear items, will all eventually destined for landfill at the end of life. Underwear for Humanity has pioneered recycling in Australia to address this waste. We work with Social Engine to sort all collected underwear. Wearable bras are given to our charity partner, Support the Girls, while the rest, including unwearable bras, are repurposed into insulation. This initiative not only reduces waste but also supports the community by redistributing useful items and converting unusable ones into valuable materials.

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Underwear For Humanity Sustainability Commitments

2021

Climate Positive Company

We work with On a Mission to offset our emissions and carbon impact across our entire supply chain. Our Climate Positive certification with On a Mission recognises that our business buys at least 1.5 times more carbon offsets than we produce each year. We are continuously striving to leave as little impact on the environment as possible, in all we do.

2021

PETA Approved VEGAN

PETA is an Animal Rights organisation that protects the treatment of animals. Their Vegan certification indicates that our products are completely free of animal ingredients, and that no animals were used or harmed in their making.

2021

Business Social Compliance Initiative

Our makers are BSCI (Business Social Compliance Initiative) certified. The BSCI certification is an ethical audit designed to uphold international labour standards, the UN charter for Human rights, and national regulations. We believe clothing should not come at the expense of others wellbeing.

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