Material Exchange

Our sustainability objectives

Join our movement to diminish environmental burdens, cultivate sustainability awareness, and accelerate economic momentum.

Our sustainability objectives

Join our movement to diminish environmental burdens, cultivate sustainability awareness, and accelerate economic momentum.

Environmental

Reduce planetary impacts

We strive to help brands, agents, and suppliers eliminate wasteful and harmful material-sourcing processes and commit to assisting them through digitization in meeting their low-impact and responsible sourcing goals. We also work from within to continually manage, measure, assess and decrease our environmental impacts across Material Exchange and have the smallest impact on the planet as possible.

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Social

Inspire sustainability mindsets​

We commit to educating our staff and ourselves to successfully inspire work toward long-term equity, diversity, impact-awareness, and wellbeing in our global teams and in all communities we touch as we support brands in their ethical and responsible sourcing goals; facilitate suppliers on their social equity and sustainability journeys; and promote the SDGs to all Material Exchange stakeholders.

Economic

Drive economic growth

We seek to embed sustainability, transparency, and trust into all company commitments, product strategies, and customer experiences to support transformational, low-impact digitized sourcing that drives profit and growth for our material suppliers; footwear and fashion brands; agency partners; investors and all the Material Exchange team, so we can continue to do good long into the future.

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More on our sustainability mission

Sustainability Playbook

The Sustainability Playbook can help brands and suppliers accelerate transitioning to preferred materials and production practices.

Sustainability Reports

Here, you’ll find sustainability reports that communicate the actions we’re taking to help facilitate responsible sourcing. 

Annual Sourcing Surveys

Check out our analyses of the results from our annual survey here as we take a look at where the industry stands and what we can do moving forward.

Want to chat?

We’d love to hear from you! Reach out to see how we could work together.