This article summarises all cases where your brand’s product range and material usage increase or remove the baseline weighting of an issue while calculating the theme score.
The following issues have dynamic weighting based on your brand's answers to certain product range and material usage questions:
Microplastics
Deforestation
All Brands:
Leather Tanning
Solvent Use
The proportion of your use of synthetic materials impacts the baseline weight of the Microplastics issue as follows:
Question in Microplastics Issue: What proportion of your products use any oil-based synthetics (polyester, nylon, etc)?
A significant proportion of our products use synthetics
Choose if synthetics are typically present in 40% or more of your products.
Choosing this answer will increase the weighting of the Microplastics issue.
Some of our products use synthetics
Choose if synthetics are typically present in less than 40% of your products.
We do not use any synthetics
Choosing this answer will give you a 0% on the Microplastics issue, but it will not negatively affect your overall score.
The proportion of your use of forest-derived materials impacts the baseline weight of the Deforestation issue as follows:
Question in Deforestation Issue: What proportion of your products use materials derived from forests (leather, rubber, metal, precious stones, and cellulosic fibres)?
We use materials derived from forests and they are dominant materials in our production
Choosing this answer will increase the weighting of the Deforestation issue
We use materials derived from forests but they are NOT dominant materials in our production
We do not use materials derived from forests
Choosing this answer will give you a 0% on the Deforestation issue, but it will not negatively affect your overall score.
The proportion of leather in your product range impacts the baseline weight of the Leather Tanning issue as follows:
Question in Hazardous Chemicals: Do you sell items that include leather?
We use leather and it's a dominant material in our production
Choosing this answer will increase the weighting of the Leather Tanning issue
We use leather but it's not a dominant material in our production
We don't use leather
You will receive 0% on Leather Tanning, but it will not negatively affect your overall score.
The proportion of shoes in your product range impacts the baseline weight of the Solvent Use issue as follows:
Question in Hazardous Chemicals: Do you sell shoes?
We sell shoes and shoes is a dominant category
Choosing this answer will increase the weighting of the Solvent Use issue.
We sell shoes but it's not a dominant category
We don't sell shoes
You will receive 0% on Solvent Use, but it will not negatively affect your overall score.