Sustainability - Gorilla Wear

Gorilla Wear only works with suppliers and manufacturers that meet our strict guidelines. These requirements ensure that all of our products are produced with the highest standards of quality and safety.

We require that our suppliers and manufacturers adhere to ethical and socially responsible practices. This includes fair labor practices, safe working conditions, and compliance with local laws and regulations. Gorilla Wear recognizes that healthy and motivated workers are crucial to producing high-quality products.

Fair labor requirements reflect our commitment to upholding the rights and welfare of workers throughout our supply chain.

Gorilla Wear is proud to partner with Waste2Wear, a pioneering company that shares our commitment to sustainability. This supplier provides sustainable textile solutions that specialize in creating innovative fabrics from recycled materials, including plastic bottles collected from the ocean and other waste sources. They work exclusively with Global Recycling Standard (GRS) certified partners to ensure compliance with all relevant environmental and labor standards.

This amazing partnership allows Gorilla Wear to incorporate their advanced recycled fabrics into products, reducing our reliance on virgin materials and minimizing our impact on the environment. These recycled fabrics not only meet our quality standards but also our sustainability values, allowing us to offer sustainable fitness apparel without compromising on quality or style.

Thanks to the proprietary blockchain system developed by the supplier, all steps in the production process are transparent and understandable to the end consumer. The blockchain provides a direct link between a recycled product and its positive environmental impact. It combines digital records with physical evidence and inspections to ensure compliance and transparency throughout the supply chain.

We've already introduced a range of products crafted entirely from recycled materials, and we're committed to further expanding this collection. Additionally, we've incorporated sustainable and eco-friendly fabrics like organic cotton into some of our New Arrivals. Our dedication to sustainability extends beyond new items; we're gradually phasing out existing products in favor of more sustainable alternatives. With each step, we're progressing towards an assortment consisting solely of products made from recycled or sustainable fabrics.

Click here to check out our sustainable collection.

We recognize that transportation and logistics play an important role in our environmental impact, and we are committed to making responsible choices to minimize our carbon footprint and reduce our overall environmental impact.

To achieve our sustainability goals, we have implemented several initiatives:

1. Eco-friendly packaging: We use eco-friendly shipping bags. We avoid excess packaging and strive to use materials that are recyclable, biodegradable, and/or made from renewable resources. We are also working to make product packaging more sustainable.
2. Partnering with sustainable courier services: We prioritize partnerships with suppliers that align with our sustainability values. We work with courier services that have adopted sustainability initiatives, such as the use of electric or low-emission vehicles, green delivery practices, or environmental certifications.
3. Carbon offsets: All of our courier services offer approved carbon offset programs to offset emissions. This may include investing in renewable energy projects, supporting reforestation, or other verified carbon offset projects to neutralize transportation emissions.
4. Optimization of shipping routes: We work closely with our transportation partners to optimize our shipping routes to minimize transportation emissions. This includes consolidating shipments, using efficient routing algorithms, and promoting sustainable transportation options, such as sea or rail transportation, wherever possible.

Waste management is a crucial pollution prevention tool because it ensures that waste is properly disposed of, recycled, or reused rather than released into the environment. To contribute to this effort, Gorilla Wear has partnered with CleanHub. CleanHub allows us to take direct action against one of the biggest environmental problems we face today: the global plastic crisis. Unlike alternative approaches that focus on recovering plastic once it enters nature, they stop it.

They bring waste collection systems to coastal areas where they do not yet exist and prevent waste from leaking into the environment or being openly incinerated. They collect waste on a large scale and ensure its proper disposal.

Their mission to build waste management infrastructure will result in thousands of new waste treatment centers around the world that will directly prevent plastic waste from reaching the ocean and provide worthy jobs for local communities.

Gorilla Wear has already funded the safe collection and recovery of 30,000 kg of ocean-bound plastic waste. This contribution supports a clean environment and creates sustainable jobs in the global south. Collection progress can be tracked through the CleanHub Impact Report.

In addition to all of the above initiatives, we are also implementing other, smaller projects that all contribute in their own way to the established sustainability goals.

Reduction of Returns
We've enhanced our size charts to ensure a more seamless and user-friendly experience. With our advanced AI size recommendation widget, customer-specific size suggestions are provided for each product, minimizing the likelihood of ordering sizes that are either too large or too small. This proactive approach not only decreases the rate of returns but also contributes to reducing carbon emissions by curbing unnecessary transportation associated with return shipments.

International Law and Regulations
To comply with international laws and regulations, we cooperate with organizations in several countries where we market products (for example, Refashion and Léko, both of which operate in France). In this way, we keep track of the number of products and registered packaging in a particular country, in order to compensate for this.

Headquarters and Staff
Finally, we are looking at ways to make our premises more sustainable. These include sustainable office supplies, waste sorting, good insulation, and energy efficiency. We are also training our staff and making them aware of the impact of our brand and the industry in which we operate. Together we will work to reduce our carbon footprint and are committed to integrating sustainable practices into every aspect of our operations.

AI Image Compression
We use an advanced AI tool on our website to compress images and videos. This reduces file sizes and increases loading speeds, without compromising image quality. This technology has saved thousands of gigabytes of data traffic and reduced CO2 emissions by tens of kilograms.