Tread & Butter

Sustainability Story

Tread & Butter is all-in on sustainability. Everything we do is centered around making good decisions about our impact on the environment and our community. In addition to being a Climate Neutral Certified brand, we build our performance insoles from the ground up with sustainable natural cork. If you don't know, cork is tree bark. The bark is carefully harvested, a process that actually prolongs the lifespan of the tree. Cork is all-natural, biodegradable, and we use it in place of petroleum-based materials commonly used in the footwear industry. Tread & Butter cork insoles are designed in Bend, Oregon and handcrafted in Portugal.

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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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Tread & Butter achieved Climate Neutral Certification as part of 's certification process. 's measurement, offsetting and reduction plans fully account for Tread & Butter's 2021 emissions

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01 Measure

Tread & Butter 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

GHG Scope 3

GHG Protocol Scope 3

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

104 tCO2e

Total Emissions

Total Carbon Emissions

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

104 tCO2e

02 Offset

Tread & Butter 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 Tread & Butter to take responsibility for historical emissions that can’t be reduced.

Total Investment in Carbon Credits

$1,404.00

Tread & Butter'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.

104 tCO2e

Lifetime Emissions Offsets

tCO2e

03 Reduce

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

Mid Term Targets

Tread & Butter 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

Tread & Butter 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 emissions associated with our packaging.

How We'll Reduce It

We aim to streamline our packaging production by consolidating down from five different packaging designs to one. This will allow us to reduce production runs, shipments, and energy used during this process.

What We’re Reducing

We plan to reduce emissions from upstream shipping.

How We'll Reduce It

We plan to consolidate freight shipments from our factory in Portugal, limiting air transport whenever possible by planning proactively to ship via ocean freight.

What We’re Reducing

How We'll Reduce It

What We’re Reducing

How We'll Reduce It

We plan to reduce emissions associated with our packaging.
We plan to reduce emissions from upstream shipping.

In Progress Reductions

100%

What We’re Reducing

Reduce executive travel

How We'll Reduce It

Fewer flights

90%

What We’re Reducing

Our goal is to keep business travel to a minimum.

How We'll Reduce It

Limiting travel, eliminating some events.

50%

What We’re Reducing

We plan to complete our 2020 goal to reduce emissions from outbound shipping.

How We'll Reduce It

More economical shipping containers, a third party off-setting app to help measure and track shipments.

What We’re Reducing

How We'll Reduce It

We plan to reduce emissions associated with our packaging.
We plan to reduce emissions from upstream shipping.

Completed Reductions