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“The MSI really provides a comprehensive scoring framework to truly look at the whole lifecycle of a material to help designers, developers and brands make better material decisions when it comes to environmental impacts,” starts Lardeau, explaining how previously, stakeholders had licence to work by their own criteria.
“It’s a helpful tool because it establishes the assessment criteria and provides the data so we can all agree on the rules of the road for evaluating materials and we can speak the same language.”
Previously, brands and retailers had their own criteria and codes of conduct that had the potential to frustrate suppliers, each tasked with meeting the individual expectations of different companies.
Published: 15 April 2021
WAKEFIELD – Ten years on from the foundation of the Sustainable Apparel Coalition (SAC), the latest edition of our
Ecotextile Talks Radio Show examines the progress of the Higg Index suite of tools that it helped to create.
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n this first episode of a series of broadcasts, our host, former BBC producer Phil Berman, speaks with SAC executive director Amina Razvi and Jason Kibbey, CEO of the Higg who talk candidly about how the fashion industry can measure its environmental and social performance, explain the more recent changes to the Higg tool, address some of the criticisms it has received in the past, and outline the next steps for scaling its use.