Zara
Zara is a Spanish fashion brand known for its fast-fashion approach. It offers a wide range of products including skirts, dresses, pants, tops & blouses, T-shirts, shorts, and bodysuits. While the brand has made some progress in sustainable practices, it still has room to improve in reducing its environmental impact and enhancing supply chain transparency.
Range: Family, Everyday Basics
Price: Moderate
Location: Spain
Sustainability Rating
- Planet: 3
- People: 3
- Animals: Not Good Enough
Analysis
Planet
Rating: It's a Start
- Uses some lower-impact materials, including recycled materials.
- Supports industry organizations addressing microplastic impacts.
- Published a biodiversity protection policy applicable to its entire supply chain.
- Eliminated some hazardous chemicals but lacks a commitment to eliminate all hazardous chemicals in manufacturing.
- Uses some recycled packaging.
People
Rating: It's a Start
- Doesn't disclose where all of its final production stages occur.
- Partly traces its supply chain, including the final and some second production stages.
- Provides workplace harassment and violence awareness training for its suppliers.
- Offers a confidential complaints mechanism for workers in its supply chain to report harassment or violence.
- Audits some of its supply chain, including all of the final production stage.
- Its Code of Conduct covers ILO Four Fundamental Freedoms principles.
- Claims to have a program to improve wages but lacks evidence of ensuring workers are paid living wages in most of its supply chain.
- Taken insufficient steps to remediate its links to cotton sourced from Xinjiang, a region in China at risk of forced labor.
Animals
Rating: Not Good Enough
- Published a general statement about minimizing animal suffering but lacks a formal animal welfare policy.
- Appears to use leather, wool, shearling, down, and exotic animal hair.
- Doesn't appear to use fur, angora, or exotic animal skin.
- No evidence of tracing any animal-derived materials to the first production stage.
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