All the brands sold by Transa meet minimum standards in terms of fair production, environment protection and animal wellbeing; our brands are obliged to ensure this is the case. Specifically, this means that we require manufacturers to comply with the ILO’s core labour standards, protect the environment during their production processes and ensure that animals are treated appropriately. You can also find our requirements in our Code of Conduct.
Plenty of our brands go beyond these general standards in terms of fair production, environment protection and animal wellbeing. With the sustainability filter, we want to make these efforts visible in our online shop: If you select the filter, you will be shown brands and products that comply with more stringent sustainability standards. This how we, as a retailer, create more transparency for sustainability endeavours in the outdoor sector and give you the option to buy a more sustainable product. You can filter by the following main criteria:
Faire production
Animal wellbeing
Environment protection
When it comes to fair production, Transa looks at the working conditions at play during the manufacture of the brands we sell. Transa only takes international, widely recognised and independently certified social standards into account. We don’t factor in brands’ own standards in this area.
A product is labelled ‘fair production’ if the brand is a member of the Fair Wear Foundation or the Fair Labor Association or if the product was manufactured in a Fairtrade-certified factory.
If a product contains down, feathers or wool, Transa scrutinises the brand’s practices related to animals like geese, ducks and sheep. Transa takes international, widely recognised and independently certified animal wellbeing standards into account. We only consider proprietary standards – i.e. standards created by brands themselves – if they include a system for tracking the down or animal product.
A product needs to meet one of the following certifications for Transa to endorse it in terms of animal wellbeing:
Certified down: the product contains down certified under the RDS standard or one of the following proprietary (brand-specific) standards: Mountain Hardwear's Down Codex® Fjällraven's Down Promise, Patagonia's Global Traceable Down Standard
Certified wool: the product contains wool certified under the RWS standard or the ZQ standard or the Ortovox Wool Promise (OWP) von Ortovox zertifiziert wurde.
Vegan: We also label vegan products, as we want to show you alternatives that are not made using animal products.
In terms of environment protection, Transa checks to make sure that eco-friendly processing technologies are deployed and that recycled or green materials are used. Here, too, we start by taking international, widely recognised and independently certified standards into account.
Unlike the issue of working conditions, environmentally friendly practices are often very product-specific and can cover a wide range of topics. As a result, Transa also factors standards created by brands themselves to ensure we can acknowledge specific sustainability innovations.
A product needs to meet one of the following requirements for Transa to highlight it in terms of environment protection:
The product is bluesign®-certified or contains materilas verified by bluesign®OEKO-TEX® standard (Made in Green , STeP or Leather Standard)
The product was dyed using CO₂- or via a waterless process
The product was spin-dyed
The product meets Vaude Green Shape requirements
The product or components have received a Leather Working Group Standard (LWG Gold, LWG Silver)
The product contains Terracare® leather
The product contains Zero Impact® leather
The product contains chrome-free tanned leather
The product contains vegetable-tanned leather
This product contains one of the following recycled or environmentally friendly materials:
The product contains GRS-Standard zertifizierte Recyclingmaterialien
The product contains NetPlus™
The product contains materials consisting of recycled waste (post-consumer or post-industrial)
The product contains GOTS (Global Organic Textile Standard) certified organic natural
As you can see, the topic is diverse and our brands are taking different approaches to make their sustainability endeavours visible. By creating this filter, we want to help you navigate your way through the topic of sustainability. You can then find more information in the specification of the respective product, where you can see which specific attributes the brand has.
If you want to find out more information about the labels in our range, you can find more information here:
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