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12: Can fashion be sustainable? Interview with Dan Leahy - CEO of MakersSights.
SustainNOW Podcast - Learn from entrepreneurs & scientists about climate solutions
English - September 04, 2022 11:00 - 41 minutes - 28.9 MBBusiness Science Natural Sciences sustainability retail technology co2 emissions ecology Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
This exciting episode features Dan Lehim, Co-founder and CEO of MakerSights, an inventory optimization tool with the aim to reduce overproduction by integrating consumer feedback in the design process. Their customers include New Balance, Champion, and Rothys.
Fashion is responsible for 8-10% of the global carbon emissions and almost up to 40% of clothes fail to sell in a season.
Is it possible to fix the fashion industry? This is one of the key questions which is addressed in this episode!
In this episode we are addressing the following questions:
Great quotes from the episode by Dan:
"84% of the CO2 emissions from the retail industry comes from the production of new goods, so if you are not tackling that as part of the problem, then you are kind of tackling a rounding error"
"At the end of the day, if you have a capsule collection that represents 0.1% of your total inventory that's being built of sustainable materials, it's not moving the needle. What's moving the needle is the other 99.9% of your inventory."
"More people care about the sustainability commitments of brands they are purchasing from than ever before"
"We want to allow brands and retail to be much more demand and consumer led than they are supply led so they can be commercially successful while minimizing their footprint"
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