Our Guiding Lights

It is said there is no destination for a sustainability journey – just daily improvement. But if one could define our sustainability goals, it would be a circular economy and carbon neutrality. That’s why we use these as our guiding lights in terms of decisions and choices we make and innovations we implement.

Our three-phased approach

In order to hold ourselves accountable by creating tangible plans and goals, we have distilled our environmental sustainability journey into three phases. Each of these phases represents years of work, change and a great deal of behind the scenes work. Having recently focused on the where and how, we are currently focusing on the what.

Carbon Offsetting

Continued Improvement in Materials Sourcing

Having achieved a certification for the factory, our focus will now shift to more responsible raw material sourcing, packaging and lower impact logistics, where we have already made many efforts and improvements. These include using responsible tanneries and recycled leather, innovation in plant based materials for our products, reduction in plastic and packaging, and working with our customers to push the sustainability agenda further. We know companies can easily fall into the trap of making bold and misleading sustainability claims. But we want to be clear that we do have an impact and that we still have far to go. We are, however, set on making every decision with sustainability in mind and communicating that transparently along the way.

Equator – the Belt Factory™ is the first member of the local fashion supply industry to achieve a Five Star Green Star Certification for Existing Building Performance from the Green Building Council of South Africa and the fourth industrial building in South Africa to achieve this.