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Focus on Product: Design Recyclable Product

What
Recyclable product is another way of saying designing product that has an afterlife. This means at the end of a product's life, it doesn't go into landfill, but becomes an input for the next generation of products. This aspirational goal leverages our outdoor heritage and environmental credentials in a competitive and green marketplace by providing durable products that meet our consumers' needs and exceed their environmental expectations.

How
We will utilise our Sustainable Product Pyramid and Green Index® rating to make progress against this goal. These tools provide guideposts and targets for improving the collective environmental performance of our line over time and create a yardstick for designers and consumers.

Focus Area

Utilise the Green Index® ratings system to drive sustainable decisions throughout our enterprise

Develop a baseline average Green Index® score for footwear products and set targets for improvement.
Have the Green Index® rating on all footwear by 2011.

Reduce waste and inefficiencies from our value chain

Develop a baseline for material production yield, average grams of packaging per unit and energy use per pair of shoes by 2008.

Eliminate the use of chemicals linked to human or environmental harm

Remove PVC from our product line by 2010.
Increase use of water-based adhesives (WBA) in footwear to reduce solvent use.
Transition to a stronger measure of solvent use per pair by 2010.

Select raw materials that reduce the environmental footprint of our products

Purchase 10% organic cotton of overall cotton purchases in 2010.
Increase renewable materials and recycled content in our products.

Improve the environmental performance of our factories

Improve the average environmental assessment score of suppliers.

Make it better™
We make a costly, resource intensive product that is destined for a landfill. Our opportunity is to create product at a lower cost, with less harm to the environment that produces new, revenue-generating products and services after its life as a shoe. Green Index® rating provides a combined measure of our success in reducing energy inputs, reducing harmful chemicals and incorporating recycled and renewable components into our product.

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