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What do these facts have in common? Fashion is the second most polluting industry in the world. It takes 1,800 gallons of water ​to create a pair of blue jeans. 20% of global industrial water pollution is from the fashion industry. The answer: they’re all false.

Global sports brand adidas is one of the first large businesses in the footwear and apparel sector to achieve material traceability at scale, gaining greater visibility into its complete supply chain down to the material level, by using TrusTrace’s digital traceability platform.

80% of fashion's carbon emissions occur in Scope 3, however many brands fail to address beyond the corporate level in their ESG initiatives. In this excerpt from the TrusTrace Traceability Playbook for Fashion Supply Chains, we explore the business case — both from internal and external influences — of going beyond the corporate level to implement true, measurable sustainability throughout the supply chain.

On Tuesday the 28th of March, the Drapers Sustainability Conference in London’s Kings Place hosted a panel discussion about traceability and transparency.

In this blog post, which is an excerpt from our 2022 Traceability Playbook for Fashion Supply Chains, you'll learn about how to communicate specific impact data and why it's important to avoid the practice of "information dumping."