MATE the Label

Sustainability Story

MATE the Label is a clean Essentials clothing brand committed to sourcing Organic, natural, and non-toxic materials from seed to skin. All garments are sustainably and ethically produced within a hyper-localized supply chain in Los Angeles. As a Climate Neutral Certified company, MATE prioritizes limiting their emissions, measuring their carbon footprint, offsetting emissions, and strategically reducing their carbon impact year over year.

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What is Climate Neutrality

A state in which human activities result in no net effect on the climate system. Requires balancing of residual greenhouse gas emissions with reductions or removals. All Climate Neutral Certified brands must meet climate neutrality standards for measuring, offsetting, and reducing greenhouse gas emissions from making and delivering products and services.

This certification covers business activities and operations for the following brands :

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MATE the Label achieved Climate Neutral Certification as part of 's certification process. 's measurement, offsetting and reduction plans fully account for MATE the Label's 2021 emissions

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01 Measure

MATE the Label measured Scope 1, 2 and 3 cradle-to-customer emissions following categories and approaches established in the Climate Neutral standards.

GHG Scope 1

GHG Protocol Scope 1

Emissions from energy used in buildings, fleets, and equipment.

0 tCO2e

1 tCO2e

GHG Scope 3

GHG Protocol Scope 3

Emissions from raw materials, manufacturing, shipping, air travel, and other activities in the supply chain.

1,576 tCO2e

Total Emissions

Total Carbon Emissions

The sum of Scope 1, 2, and 3 emissions.

1,577 tCO2e

02 Offset

MATE the Label invested in projects outside of their value chain to compensate for all of their measured carbon emissions. This step supports their climate neutrality designation, and enables MATE the Label to take responsibility for historical emissions that can’t be reduced.

Total Investment in Carbon Credits

$15,410

MATE the Label's credits came from:

Emissions Offset

Offset equivalency

For reference, reducing a footprint by 1000 tonnes is roughly equal to removing 230 passenger vehicles from the road for a year.

1,580 tCO2e

Lifetime Emissions Offsets

tCO2e

03 Reduce

MATE the Label has set targets and identified actions to reduce their emissions from operations and their supply chain. These actions will enable MATE the Label to emit fewer emissions in the future.

Mid Term Targets

MATE the Label is pursuing a 30% reduction in intensity of Scope 3 CO2 emissions by 2030. Using 2020 as a baseline year, MATE will aim to have a 3% reduction in intensity annually, resulting in a 30% total reduction in scope 3 emissions per product. In addition, MATE plans on reducing scope 1 and 2 emissions by 50% within the same timeframe.

MATE the Label has committed to reducing emissions by .

This target is aligned with global trajectories to limit climate warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius.

Mid Term Targets

This target is aligned with global trajectories to limit climate warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius.

Reduction Actions

MATE the Label is implementing a Reduction Action Plan to reduce emissions from within its own operations and supply chain.

Current Year Reduction Actions

What We’re Reducing

We plan to reduce the impact of our fiber sourcing for clothing by incorporating recycled cotton into our line.

How We'll Reduce It

Utilize the cutting table scraps that MATE collected and recycled in 2021 to fill an order of recycled fabric that is made up of recycled cutting scraps from MATE production. We will incorporate this recycled fabric into a recycled cotton product line.

What We’re Reducing

We plan to reduce the emissions associated with growing and transporting cotton for clothing production by sourcing U.S grown cotton that uses carbon farming / regenerative practices to reduce the impact of our cotton and promote healthy California soils.

How We'll Reduce It

We are currently working pre competitively with a coalition of brands to commit to this cotton and pay farmers a premium to implement these carbon farming and regenerative practices.

What We’re Reducing

How We'll Reduce It

What We’re Reducing

How We'll Reduce It

We plan to reduce the impact of our fiber sourcing for clothing by incorporating recycled cotton into our line.
We plan to reduce the emissions associated with growing and transporting cotton for clothing production by sourcing U.S grown cotton that uses carbon farming / regenerative practices to reduce the impact of our cotton and promote healthy California soils.

In Progress Reductions

100%

What We’re Reducing

Increase the amount of recycled material used by MATE the Label.

How We'll Reduce It

Collect all cotton cutting table scraps created by the brand. Aggregate these scraps and send to a strategic recycling partner in Guatemala to be shredded into fiber and then respun into yarn and eventually woven back into fabric.

90%

What We’re Reducing

We plan to reduce emissions from the disposal of used clothing currently in circulation.

How We'll Reduce It

We will give customers the option to send us their used MATE cloths to be mechanically recycled and made into new MATE cloths.

100%

What We’re Reducing

We plan to examine the carbon intensity of any new products we produce specifically looking at the proportion of how much we are emitting vs earning on a piece.

How We'll Reduce It

We will set a cut off point on the carbon intensity of each product to better help regulate the growth of the company and the growth of the companies carbon footprint.

What We’re Reducing

How We'll Reduce It

We plan to reduce the impact of our fiber sourcing for clothing by incorporating recycled cotton into our line.
We plan to reduce the emissions associated with growing and transporting cotton for clothing production by sourcing U.S grown cotton that uses carbon farming / regenerative practices to reduce the impact of our cotton and promote healthy California soils.

Completed Reductions