At the Sustainable Apparel Coalition ’s annual meeting in Singapore earlier this month, Amina Razvi, the organization’s executive director, immediately addressed the elephant in the room. “I think we all agree that data needs to be trusted, it needs to be accurate, it needs to be credible, it needs to be substantiated,” she said. “Which means that we have a shared objective, which is how do you put trusted, credible data in the hands of decision-makers, whether it’s from a business perspective or whether it’s with consumers?” Razvi was speaking about the Materials Sustainability Index, or MSI, a module of the popular Higg Index suite of tools that rates the environmental impact of materials across categories such as global warming potential, water scarcity, fossil-fuel depletion and chemistry. For years, the trade group’s members, which include Adidas, Gap Inc, H&M Group and Patagonia , have been using the MSI’s wealth of life-cycle assessment (LCA) data to justify so-called “sustainable” sourcing decisions,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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