Impact and dependencies assessment
Hanesbrands has not holistically assessed its impacts or how it depends on nature, including biodiversity. It has an opportunity to start such an assessment across its value chains, focused on quantification of its impacts or dependencies.
Key areas and species
Hanesbrands does not disclose key species or areas important for biodiversity affected by its operations or suppliers. It has an opportunity to increase its transparency.
Ecosystem conversion and restoration
No evidence was found regarding Hanesbrands’ efforts to avoid ecosystem conversion, including deforestation, or promote restoration. The company has an opportunity to develop a strategy and publicly report on specific, time-bound targets.
Resource exploitation and circularity
No evidence was found regarding Hanesbrands’ efforts to work towards a circular economy or which organisms it exploits. The company has an opportunity to develop a strategy and publicly report on specific, time-bound targets. The company does not disclose efforts to improve soil health.
Water
No evidence that Hanesbrands reduces water withdrawal across the company’s own operations was found. While the company sets a target to reduce water use by 25%, the amount increases compared to its baseline year 2019. The company reports how much water is withdrawn for its own operations in water-stressed areas. The company discloses that with the WWF Water Risk Filter identification tool, it does not withdraw its water from water-stressed areas. The company does not engage with suppliers to reduce water withdrawal.
Hanesbrands does not report a decrease in water pollution. The company discloses its practice of managing and monitoring water quality through measuring temperature and standard effluent parameters. While the company mentions its wastewater quality parameters such as BOD, COD, TSS and pH, no evidence that the company discloses the data on these parameters. The company does not disclose targets to reduce water pollution. The company does not disclose its processes for implementing preventive and corrective action plans for identified specific risks to the right to water and sanitation in its own operations.
Solid and air pollution
While Hanesbrands discloses its management of chemical substances, no evidence the company provides practices or evidence of reducing such substances. No evidence that the company is reducing the production of hazardous waste was found. The company does not report on the amount of plastic waste generated and proportions directed from or to disposal. The company does not report on air quality parameters of emissions of harmful air pollutants. The company does not report time-bound targets to reduce air pollutants across the most material parts of its value chain.
GHG emissions
No evidence that Hanesbrands reduces its scope 1 and 2 greenhouse gas emissions compared to the previous year and has a year-over-year reduction was found. The company discloses that its scope 3 reductions will be calculated in 2022. The company sets a target to reduce 50% of scope 1 & 2 emissions and 30% of scope 3 emissions by 2025 compared to the baseline year 2019. No evidence that the company’s scope 1, 2 and 3 emissions target is aligned with a 1.5-degree trajectory was found.
Invasive species
Hanesbrands has not identified any activities that could lead to the introduction of invasive alien species in its own operations.