Our sustainability goals

Short- and long term goals at Studio Heijne

Here you can read all about our goals to be more sustainable and be the best brand we can be to make the planet a better place.

Examples of actions that we have taken so far:

  • We only use recycled polyester for all our garment labels, our hang tags are made from recycled paper.
  • We only produce on-demand to minimize waste.
  • We choose to have our production in Europe so we easily can visit our producer and control the production conditions.
  • We only use natural buttons for example: corozo buttons, which are made from the seeds of the tagua palm tree. We don’t use plastic buttons!
  • Our business concept individualize garments, both in size and detail combined high customer service leeds to low return. We only have 2% returns, compared with industry average of 50-70%. Low returns means smaller transport distance, which leads to less carbon dioxide emissions.
  • We choose our suppliers who share the same values, have good social working conditions for their employees and actively work with developing more sustainable products.
  • We ship with DHL and always with climate compensated green shipping.
  • We offer garment adjustment service.
  • We offer rental services on all our in stock garments.

Our studio in Lithuania.

Short term goals:

All this actions will be completed before the end of 2023.

  • Stop using new plastic packaging from supplier deliveries and replace it with a more sustainable material.
  • Reduce our use of so-called “bad” fabric to 0%.
  • Confirm our Code of conduct to Studio Heijnes suppliers.
  • In June 2022, Studio Heijne became a member of the Sustainable brand platform, from this platform we can achieve:
    • Calculate our carbon footprint.
    • Calculate our life cycle assessment calculator to understand how products perform across multiple environmental indicators.
    • After completing our calculations above we will be able to identify the areas which we need to improve to be able to reach our long term goals.
Link to platform

Long term goals:

  • By 2030 we want to be 100% climate neutral.
  • By 2030, 100% of our fabrics will de durable (priority and good fabrics, see our material guide).
  • By 2028 we want to have a completed digitalized, automatized value chain.

Material Mix

We have made a list of which materials that Studio Heijne should prioritize and not prioritize, this list also describes which materials are more important than others, but also which materials are banned. In the list you can see how much of the materials we use today, we strive to just be in the good box as well as the priority box. See long term goals. 

 

Material Mix – Studio Heijne