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ETHICS & THE ENVIRONMENT
It is very important to us that our products are manufactured sustainably and in humane conditions. New
Wave Group is involved in several different international programmes focusing on environmental and ethical
issues. We want to ensure that the products we offer to consumers are manufactured in socially and ethically
acceptable production conditions. As one of our customers, you contribute to this important work.
Accord on Fire and Building
Safety in Bangladesh
The Accord is a binding agreement
designed to improve fire and building
safety for the textile industry in
Bangladesh. The Accord carries out
inspections, provides fire safety training
and renovates buildings in the area.
Clean Shipping Index Textile Exchange
The Clean Shipping Index encourages
shipping companies to use cleaner
vessels by ranking ships on their
environmental performance. Transport
buyers can use the Clean Shipping
Index to calculate and minimise their
environmental footprint. Textile Exchange is an international
non-profit organisation that works to
make the textile industry more
sustainable by, for example, promoting
organic cotton production.
ÖKO-TEX Standardi 100
Amfori BSCI (Business Social
Compliance Initiavite)
Developed by European retail chains,
AMFORI BSCI strives to improve
suppliers’ working conditions in
developing countries so that they can
achieve the level required by
international treaties. AMFORI BCSI
also aims to clarify and standardise
the monitoring of suppliers carried
out by companies. The goal is to
ensure that the products offered to
customers are manufactured in
socially and ethically acceptable
production conditions.
Hand in Hand
Hand-in-Hand fights poverty with
education and entrepreneurship. In
approximately 7 years, the
organisation has created over 1.7
million jobs in some of the world’s
poorest countries. As a result, 5 million
people are no longer living in extreme
poverty and hundreds of thousands of
children have been able to attend
school. With New Wave’s funding of
Hand-in-Hand, three entire villages are
able to participate in the project and
some 1,500 people will have their
lives changed for the better.
is an international textile testing and
certification system. OEKO-TEX
certification means that the entire value
chain of a product has been tested
independently and that the product is
safe for the skin. The label helps
consumers make purchase decisions
when shopping for sustainably
produced textile products.
SE 14-218 Swerea IVF
Tested for harmful substances
www.oeko-tex.com/standard100
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