Sustainability
CKM believe that sustainability is an integral part of our business as well as future growth. This is why we strive to work with like-minded partners across all areas and work to continuously improve our sustainable practices.
CKM offers all customers the usage of sustainably manufactured fabrics within the realms of commercial viability. From the raw materials, procurement through to manufacturing and delivery every process is continuously audited and reviewed to ensure we maintain the highest standards and continue to improve. We strive to always continue to improve our sustainable practices, increase our offering of responsibly sourced materials and become a more efficient production and sourcing provider.
CKM have always been careful to avoid sending unwanted or surplus garments to landfills in a number of ways. We host private sample sales for staff all year round with 2000+ sample garments per year going to staff. We also donate any unsold, damaged or unwanted garments to local and international charitable organisations. Our continued charitable donation program has seen an estimated 5000+ garments donated per year instead of directed to landfills.
We reuse our warehouse packaging wherever we can, with our cardboard boxes and pallets reused and repurposed across the business as safely as possible. We recycle all cardboard and paper materials within our warehouses ensuring our warehouse and distribution waste remains as low as possible. We currently recycle 100% of our recyclable paper and plastic waste from our warehouses. We recycle 75% of our recyclable waste in our UK offices including paper, plastic and glass materials.
Perhaps our most exciting step towards becoming more sustainable has been to introduce a range of recycled garments into our offering. One garment being made from an average of 8-15 recycled plastic bottles, which would otherwise have ended in landfills or as ocean waste from plastic spillage.
Recycled PET Fabric is more sustainable than alternatives for a number of reasons particularly for the steps it takes towards creating an open loop lifecycle for waste PET materials, allowing the material to find second and third uses beyond its initial life. It requires 86% less water and 70% less energy to produce than conventional virgin polyester fabrics, creating an estimated 75% less C02 emissions than its traditional counterpart. In addition it does not require new petroleum to produce which in return reduces the environmental impact of the material further.