ASOS AFRICA S/S'13

S/S'13 offers up a heady mix of zingy chartreuse green and monochrome designs on sleeveless shirts, sheer panel dresses and statement-making playsuits.

The best bit? ASOS Africa is produced in collaboration with SOKO Kenya, allowing communities to establish sustainable business through local craftsmanship.

This company sources, manufactures and retails products responsibly.

Brand: ASOS Africa

Social and Environmental Practices
- Ensures that the packaging which they use is made of recyclable or recycled materials
- Has a policy that requires knowledge of their suppliers' environmental and social practices.
- Ensures that their suppliers pay their employees and subcontractors either local minimum wage and/or the living wage
- Ensures that their suppliers have policies preventing forced and/or child labour: ILO conventions 29 (forced labour), 138 (minimum age) and 182 (worst forms of child labour).
- Measures and takes steps to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions.
- Measures and takes steps to reduce their waste.
- Uses organic ingredients where possible.
- Does not use real fur.
- Does not use any materials derived from species that appear on the CITES (the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora) or IUCN (International Union for Conservation of Nature) lists of endangered species.
- Does not use any leather or skin materials that are obtained from live skinning or live boiling.
- Does not use feathers or down obtained from the live plucking of birds.
Philanthropy
- Supports a charitable organisation.

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