REDUCING OUR FOOTPRINT
Protecting Ancient & Endangered Forests
Boden is working with Canopy to ensure that the forest fibre in our viscose products and their packaging does not originate in ancient or endangered forests. Canopy is a not-for-profit organisation, dedicated to protecting the world's Ancient and Endangered forests, climate and species. It has partnered with over 950 brands, producers, and innovators to transform their viscose, paper and paper packaging supply chains, scale low-carbon and circular alternatives, and save climate- and biodiversity-critical forests.
Boden has committed to eliminate Ancient and Endangered forest fibre within its man-made cellulosic supply chain (viscose, rayon, lyocell, modal, acetate) through the CanopyStyle initiative and its paper packaging supply chain through the Pack4Good initiative.
PACKAGING
If you live in the UK or Europe 100% of the cardboard delivery boxes you receive will be made from 100% recycled material. They’re fully recyclable too, so please do. Any boxes that are returned to our UK warehouse in Leicester are recycled in a closed loop system. In the US our cardboard delivery boxes contain between 85% and 100% recycled material. To reduce our carbon footprint we source our boxes locally. You might also like to know that the packing tissue used inside our delivery boxes worldwide is made from 100% recycled paper.
We have reviewed all the options for our dispatch bags and found that the polythene option has the lowest impact on the planet. The polythene we use for our bags is 80% recycled material and is fully recyclable. Polythene bags have two key advantages over paper: they can be recycled many more times than paper and they take up much less space than paper. This results in a lower carbon footprint for transportation. Any polythene bags that are returned to our Leicester warehouse are recycled in a closed loop system.
Last but not least, the transparent polythene bags used to protect individual garments inside our parcels always contain at least 95% recycled content.
REDUCING LANDFILL
Our aim is to avoid our product or our waste going to landfill. At the heart of what we do is to design and manufacture our products to last. We then look to extend their life with our Care, Repair and Rewear programme. This was launched in 2021 for the UK and in 2023 400 items were sent to us to repair. The oldest item returned to us for repair this year was bought from Boden in 2004. It was a wrap coat. The lining had degraded over time, so we replaced it and sent it back to the customer to carry on wearing.
For end of line stock we work with charities to make sure none of it is sent to landfill and we also run a Pass It On programme for our customers, whereby they can send items back that they no longer want, for an account credit. We then include these in our donations to charities or have the products recycled. We had over 1600 items returned to us by customers in the year
Last year the focus at our Leicester site as to segregate the general waste by material type prior to collection to reduce the amount sent to landfill. Through better segregation we reduced the amount sent to landfill by 65% (4 tonnes in 2025 v 11.6 in 2024).
Of the waste that we generate across our three sites we either recycle it, send it to be used for power generation or send it to landfill. In 2025 we exceeded our target for over 90% of our waste to have routes that avoid landfill.
For the waste we generated the split was as follows:
- 90% Recycled.
- 7% Diversion (Power generation or other uses)
- 3% to Landfill
We continue to look at ways to reduce our waste across our sites.
REDUCING CARBON
We’re continuing to reduce our Scope 1 and Scope 2 emissions. At the end of 2024, our SECR Market based reporting Co2e emissions total was measured at just under 125 tonnes for Scopes 1 and 2, down from 2,400 tonnes in 2019. As in previous years we have offset the emissions in wind farm projects in India using gold accredited schemes, as some of our clothing is produced in this country.
We know there’s a lot more to do. Most of the carbon emissions associated with our business occur in the manufacturing of our clothes by our suppliers (Scope 3). As well as choosing lower-impact fibres we’re developing tools to highlight hot spots of heavy carbon emissions in our supply chain. This is the first step in helping our partners remove carbon from the manufacturing process, to reduce our overall Scope 3 emissions.