REDUCING OUR FOOTPRINT
Protecting Ancient & Endangered Forests
Boden is working with Canopy to ensure that the forest fibre in our viscose products and their packaging does not originate in ancient or endangered forests. Canopy is a not-for-profit organisation, dedicated to protecting the world's Ancient and Endangered forests, climate and species. It has partnered with over 950 brands, producers, and innovators to transform their viscose, paper and paper packaging supply chains, scale low-carbon and circular alternatives, and save climate- and biodiversity-critical forests.
Boden has committed to eliminate Ancient and Endangered forest fibre within its man-made cellulosic supply chain (viscose, rayon, lyocell, modal, acetate) through the CanopyStyle initiative and its paper packaging supply chain through the Pack4Good initiative.
PACKAGING
We hit our 5-year goal of having over 90% of our packaging made from recycled content, which was a great achievement.
We also continued our journey to remove and reduce the amount of packaging that we use. The major change in the year was in August 2025; we stopped putting paper delivery notes in our customer orders. Customers already receive regular emails updating them on the status of their order and have the facility to complete and submit any return paperwork electronically via an online portal. Therefore, it was decided to discontinue these, as it is now widespread practice not to receive printed delivery notes in online orders. The removal of delivery notes will remove over 22k reams of paper, 56 tonnes per annum, which is 16,500 trees. There is also the cost saving, reduction in printers and
all the print consumables required.
In the UK we continued to operate our closed loop recycling for cardboard and polythene. Since we started in 2023, we have recycled 139 tonnes of polythene waste, sufficient to make 860K medium dispatch bags (21 weeks usage). On cardboard waste, we have recycled 889 tonnes, which is easily sufficient to cover our annual box usage. The amount of recycled paper would cover the football pitch at Wembley 1225 times or would make 1.91m units of our most used dispatch box (last year’s usage was 175k).
REDUCING LANDFILL
We never send unsold Boden products to landfill. In the UK we divert end of line stock to a number of charities that sell our clothes to raise funds for their work. In the US we’ve partnered with Planet Aid, who sell unsold Boden items in thrift stores as well as distributing clothing to areas of need. We also run the Pass It On programme which enables customers to send back Boden items they no longer want in exchange for account credit. Over 1,500 items were returned by customers during 2025 to be passed on to charity or recycled.
In the UK our partner Bright Secure Recycling repurposes any Boden stock that is not fit to be sent to charity. In 2024 they recycled 4.5 tonnes of odd shoes and rags by turning it onto dog bed or gym equipment filling. In 2025 the waste generated across our business sites was processed as follows: 90% was recycled; 7% was diverted (power generation and other uses); and 3% went to landfill.
REDUCING CARBON
We’re continuing to reduce our Scope 1 and Scope 2 emissions.At the end of 2024, our SECR Market based reporting Co2e emissions total was measured at just under 125 tonnes for Scopes 1 and 2, down from 2,400 tonnes in 2019. As in previous years we have offset the emissionsin wind farm projects in India using gold accredited schemes, as some of our clothing is produced in this country.
We know there’s a lot more to do. Most of the carbon emissions associated with our business occur in the manufacturing of our clothes by our suppliers (Scope 3). As well as choosing lower-impact fibres we’re developing tools to highlight hot spots of heavy carbon emissions in our supply chain. This is the first step in helping our partners remove carbon from the manufacturing process, to reduce our overall Scope 3 emissions.