Liberty Sustainability - SustainabilityTracker.com

Liberty presents sustainability as part of its long-term business tradition, stating that it wants to remain sustainable for the future by transforming products, processes and packaging. Its environmental page focuses on reducing negative environmental impact through resource-saving printing, lower-impact fabrics, and packaging that is reusable, recyclable or biodegradable where possible. It also supports industry-wide sustainability initiatives including the Better Cotton Initiative, Global Organic Textile Standard, Global Recycled Standard and FSC certification. The Liberty Steel Group content separately sets out an ESG strategy focused on profitable, resilient and carbon-neutral businesses, emissions reduction, energy efficiency, recycling and partnerships on energy projects.

Backed industry initiatives

To support wider action to make the apparel sector more sustainable, Liberty is backing industry-wide sustainability initiatives from farm to finished product. These include the Better Cotton Initiative, Global Organic Textile Standard, Global Recycled Standard and FSC® certification.

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Introduced Responsible Collection

Liberty is leading the way with a Responsible Collection that reimagines some of its signature fabrics. Choices include an organic version of its world-famous Tana Lawn cotton, grown without using synthetic chemicals and woven in line with strict environmental guidelines.

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Uses lower-impact materials

Other new fabrics are made with wood pulp and hemp, all raw materials that regenerate naturally. Liberty sources these materials from forests that have a recognised certification to demonstrate they are well managed. It also trials innovative materials that recycle plastic waste like old fishing nets, including Econyl, a recycled nylon made from post-consumer waste.

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Reduced water and ink use

Liberty uses digital textile printing to produce designs on linen, chambray and Tana Lawn® cotton. This digital textile printing uses less water and just 10% of the volume of ink that would be needed for traditional screen printing. The printing machines recover water used for washing fabrics and re-use it for the first wash of the colour pumps.

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Improved mill efficiency

Liberty is improving mill processes to reduce the amount of water and energy used. A heat exchanger has been installed to pre-warm water used in the washing process, and LED lights and other efficient equipment reduce the amount of energy needed to run the mill. Two-thirds of the chemicals used in its printing processes are approved by the Global Organic Textile Standard.

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