SKOT

How sustainable is SKOT?

This scree­ning has been done by Fai­ri­fy on April 10^th 2020

SKOT is a sus­tai­nable, Dutch male fashion brand that main­ly spe­cia­lises in shirts and t‑shirts. The brand uses 100% more sus­tai­nable orga­nic cot­ton with either the GOTS or OCS cer­ti­fi­cate. But­tons for its shirts are made from more sus­tai­nable mate­rials like coco­nut, coro­zo or pearl and where it has to use yarns, the com­pa­ny makes sure it uses recy­cled poly­es­ter. SKOT shows a serious com­mit­ment to making a posi­tive impact and is pushing for­wards to keep increa­sing the per­cen­tage of recy­cled mate­rials to even­tual­ly offer a com­ple­te­ly cir­cu­lar product.

Fair fashion

SKOT is com­ple­te­ly trans­pa­rent concer­ning mate­rial sour­cing and labor condi­tions of its ope­ra­tions. Pro­duc­tion main­ly takes place in Europe and it sources mate­rials near the pro­duc­tion faci­li­ties to reduce the impact of trans­port. The main pro­duc­tion faci­li­ty for its shirts is loca­ted in Istan­bul and is BSCI cer­ti­fied. T‑shirts are made in India where the fac­to­ry has the SA8000 cer­ti­fi­cate. Because this fac­to­ry is connec­ted to the Chet­na pro­ject, which improves cot­ton sour­cing and pays fair prices to the cot­ton far­mers in India, the shirts have the Fair Trade label. The com­pa­ny also doesn’t use any harm­ful che­mi­cals, which is veri­fied by the Green­peace Detox certification.

A shirt revolution

SKOT has intro­du­ced and paten­ted a sys­tem of shirt-atta­ched knobs, cal­led Asco­lite, that contains a pro­duct pas­sport with your pur­chase details and decreases ship­ping emis­sions by mini­mi­zing packa­ging and deli­ve­ring your shirt without any plas­tics right to your doors­tep. When you are done using the shirt, you can hand it in and receive a 10% dis­count on your next pur­chase. Impro­ve­ments can be made par­ti­cu­lar­ly in the field of trans­pa­ren­cy, but the com­pa­ny ful­ly ack­now­ledges this fact. A data-dri­ven sus­tai­na­bi­li­ty report that covers its entire ope­ra­tions and the car­bon foot­print it gene­rates, is the next step and exact­ly what SKOT is wor­king on. All in all, the pio­nee­ring brand is on a mis­sion to revo­lu­tio­nize the way shirts are made and has pro­ven to be a force for good.

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