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Primark Sustainability & Ethics Progress Report 2022/23

Our second Primark Sustainability and Ethics Progress Report outlines the progress we’re making against our Primark Cares commitments, following the launch of our strategy in 2021.

Over the past 12 months, we’ve focused on embedding and scaling up pilot projects, taking on early learnings to understand where we can deliver impact and drive change.

Primark Sustainability and Ethics Progress Report 2022/23, 7.20MB

Primark Sustainability and Ethics Progress Report 2022/23

Our year in highlights

PSCP

Our Primark Sustainable Cotton Programme marks 10 years

Our award-winning Primark Sustainable Cotton Programme (PSCP) began in 2013 with the aim of reducing the environmental impact of our cotton, to support cotton farmers' livelihoods and to improve the traceability of our cotton supply chain for Primark. We’ve now trained almost 300,000 farmers, making it the largest of its kind of any single fashion retailer.

Clothes that can be recycled

Clothes that can be recycled

This year, we launched our Circular Product Standard and new collection based on this standard. We’re now training Primark colleagues and suppliers in circular design to support a shift in how we design now and in the future.

Our repair programme

Our repair programme

One of the ways we're encouraging our customers to love and wear their clothes for longer is through our free repair workshops. Since 2021, we’ve hosted over 100 workshops in stores across the UK, Republic of Ireland, Netherlands and France, offering 1,600 free places to customers and colleagues. We’ve also created an online customer hub featuring easy-to-follow repair videos, so customers can upskill at home as well.

Making affordable clothes that our designed to last

Making affordable clothes that our designed to last

We’ve committed to further strengthen the durability of our clothes by 2025. We’re working with WRAP, as a signatory to its Textiles 2030 initiative, and have developed an enhanced durability wash standard based on WRAP’s Clothing Longevity Protocol.

SBTi Validation

Validation of our Emissions Target by the Science Based Targets initiative

We’ve committed to halve our carbon footprint across our entire value chain by 2030. We're proud that this year, our near-term greenhouse gas emissions target was validated by the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi), demonstrating that our target is consistent with the global effort to combat climate change.

Improving the livelihoods of the people who make our clothes

Improving the livelihoods of the people who make our clothes

We have a long-standing commitment to support decent and safe workplaces for the people who make our clothes. For over a decade, we’ve been running and building programmes and initiatives in a number of our sourcing markets to help support workers on areas such as financial resilience or skills development. You can hear more about our mental health awareness programme My Space and worker rights programme My Life here.

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