About the data

Around one quarter of the industry’s resources are wasted as leftovers of textile and garment production every year. This is why it is useful for understanding whether a company is reusing or recycling pre-consumer waste through different methods such as energy recovery, recycling into new fabric or selling this waste on other markets.

In this question you are being asked to identify whether the company publicly discloses breakdown (% or tonnes) of how pre-consumer waste is reused or recycled (e.g. downcycled, resold locally, used for energy recovery, resold into other markets, upcycled, recycled into new textiles).

Where to look for this information:
- Corporate Social Responsibility report
- Company documents
- Company policies
- Company websites
- Company code of conduct
- Parent company documents (only if the parent company is linked to from the brands website)
- Parent company policies (only if the parent company is linked to from the brands website)
- Parent company websites (only if the parent company is linked to from the brands website)
- Parent company code of conduct (only if the parent company is linked to from the brands website)

Good keywords for your searches include:
- Textile
- Product
- Waste
- Pre-consumer
- Off-cuts
- Unsold and defective stock
- Samples
- Circularity

Things to keep in mind:
- Pre-consumer waste/surplus includes off-cuts, unsold and defective stock, production samples.