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Our Authoritative Text On Sustainable Vegan Leathers Now Published On Amazon
Why leather look synthetic fabric made in traditional polyurethane (PU) called faux/vegan leather has limited future because of its impact on environment and workers in manufacturing process and its component materials. The replacement of toxic PU with sustainable eco vegan leathers both lab-grown & plant-based has begun. -
It's Time! True Sustainable Vegan Leather Delivers True Sustainability Outcomes.
James&Co has been working really hard over recent years to be the supplier of always-popular leather look outerwear that is both vegan and sustainable. For retailers who currently stock and sell faux/vegan leather outerwear we can help you achieve your Sustainability Goals of sourcing sustainable raw materials and ensuring you are purchasing sustainable products. -
How Coronavirus Impacts James&Co's Operations: Let's Turn Adversity Into Opportunity
Can we work together to achieve sustainability goals - to accelerate the work to achieve any of the UN Sustainable Development Goals by 2030? For example, with the break in brands and retailers being able to source raw materials and products, can we work together to achieve goals of reducing/diminishing reliance on raw materials that are harmful and replacing them with sustainable ones when the factories re-open? -
James&Co Is The Leading Apparel Brand To Ditch Toxic Faux Leather. Join Us In The Campaign To Further The Sustainable Industry Change.
James&Co is running a crowdfunding campaign starting 17 January 2020. This will become live at Its objective is to raise funds for a marketing campaign - to promote the James&Co brand leadership in ending use of toxic faux leather for its outerwear and tailoring in sustainable eco leather. Read why traditional faux leather harms the environment and how supporting the James&Co crowdfunding campaign will be a contribution by you to making a difference. -
Sustainability Sale: Benefits For Customers, James&Co, Environment & UN SDGs
The purchase of a James&Co sustainable eco vegan leather jacket at sale price in our Sustainability Sale can make a difference to reducing fashion industry pollution of 97% of textiles being sent to landfill and make a difference to achieving UN Sustainability Development Goals of reduce, reuse, recycle.
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Cruelty-free Does Not Always Equate to Sustainable: Info To Help Make A Difference
In light of concerns expressed about the lack of sustainability of the Matt & Nat PU/PVC products in particular, and in respect of all vegan leather/faux leather jackets made from PU or PVC, it is clear that products ticking the box for cruelty-free and vegan are not de facto ticking the box for sustainable. Armed with that information consumers have the ability to choose. Choosing and rewarding responsible fashion brands that do good, over the ones that don’t, can drive the whole industry to become more sustainable and fair.
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Sustainability Survey For James&Co: Just 9 Qs For Your Feedback On Products & Recycling
A short survey for consumers, followers and partners to give us feedback on our initiatives for sustainability in our products and recycling initiative. -
Climate Change & Sustainable Fashion: Let's Be Business Leaders For Action
Following the Climate Change Summit 2019 James&Co is fired up about driving a positive contribution as a business to climate change and sustainability. And to responding to consumers' expectations to inform how our products and operations help them make an individual contribution. We've been working on it since we started business and now is the time for all us business stakeholders to work out collaborative opportunities. -
Make An Eco Contribution: Send Your Plastic-Based PU Faux/Vegan Leather Jacket To Us For Recycling
Here's another sustainable contribution you can make: divert your PU fabric jacket from landfill by re-using or recycling it
What do you do with a vegan leather jacket that has come to its effective end of life for you? You can always donate it to a charity for re-use by the charity customers. Or send it for recycling. James&Co is investigating a partnership to recycle PU jackets - not just our brand styles from previous years but all brands. This will make it easier for our customers to send their used PU jackets for recycling. As a first step and as we set up the recycle initiative, we invite our Australian customers to send your used PU jacket to us and we will send it on for recycling. At no shipping cost to you.
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How A James&Co Purchase Is A Consumer's Personal Contribution To Sustainability
When considering a leather or leather-look jacket purchase, consumers may like the look and supposed-luxury of expensive real leather jackets or wearing a brand name of 'vegan leather' jackets. Or they may prefer to pay the lowest prices for faux leather jackets. From our researches, James&Co is the only brand of womens outerwear tailored in chemical-free leather look fabrics. So we want consumers to know that making the decision to buy James&Co is a smart choice. And why.