Gildan Heavy Cotton™ T-Shirt

Certifications

• Better Cotton™ is the world’s largest cotton sustainability programme. Its mission is to help cotton communities survive and thrive while protecting and restoring the environment. They are making cotton farming a more climate-resilient, environmentally friendly and responsible business.
• Fair Labor Association (FLA) is a collaborative effort of universities, civil society organisations and socially responsible companies dedicated to protecting workers’ rights around the world. FLA places the onus on companies to voluntarily meet internationally recognised labor standards.
• The OEKO-TEX Standard 100 is an independent certification system that tests textile raw materials, intermediate and end products for harmful substances at all stages of production.
• REACH stands for Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and restriction of Chemicals. REACH aims to improve the protection of human health and the environment through the better and earlier identification of the intrinsic properties of chemical substances.
• Sedex stands for Supplier Ethical Data Exchange, it is a global membership organisation dedicated to driving improvements in ethical and responsible business practices in global supply chains.
• The Sustainable Apparel Coalition (SAC) brings together more than 280 global brands, retailers, manufactures and academics. The SAC is deeply committed to creating a more sustainable, equitable, and just world for all through collective action efforts that enable positive social and environmental impact at scale.
• The U.S Cotton Trust was designed to set a new standard in more sustainably grown cotton. The program's mission is to bring quantifiable and verifiable goals and measurement to the key sustainable metrics of U.S cotton production, with a vision of full transparency and continuous improvement, where improving the environmental footprint is the central goal.
• WRAP stands for Worldwide Accredited Production and is an independent, objective, non-profit team of global social compliance experts dedicated to promoting safe, lawful, humane and ethical manufacturing around the world through certification and education.
• OEKO-TEX Standard 100 - certificate number 68255