Everyday Green Choices
In place of single-use plastic, use this instead when shopping to carry your items.
What is a reusable bag?
SHEIN has a goal to reduce this environmental indicator by 25% by 2030, and reach net-zero by 2050.
What is our carbon footprint?
This is the name of SHEIN’s in-app peer-to-peer resale platform.
What is SHEIN Exchange?
Higher percentages of this kind of material content is being used in more of SHEIN's packaging and products.
What is recycled content?
This is the name of SHEIN’s Sustainability and Social Impact Roadmap that guides us as we evolve for the future.
What is evoluSHEIN
Save money and plastic waste by bringing this with you for drinking water.
What is a refillable bottle?
SHEIN’s Cool Denim Transfer Printing technology can save >70% of this natural resource compared to traditional denim production methods.
What is water?
We are partnering with this company to properly recycle textile waste and e-waste for our employees for Earth Day.
What is TRASHIE?
This synthetic fiber is most often derived from recycled plastic bottles and is also SHEIN’s most common preferred fiber.
What is recycled polyester (rPET)?
This is the name of SHEIN’s philanthropic program for employees to volunteer and make a positive impact in their communities.
What is SHEIN Cares?
This kind of energy-efficient lighting lasts longer and uses less power than incandescent bulbs.
What are LEDs?
Instead of using gas-powered trucks, a low-carbon option for commuting (or for last-mile delivery of SHEIN products) can use this type of vehicle to reduce carbon emissions.
What is an electric vehicle (EV)?
Aloqia (formerly called Queen of Raw) helps SHEIN to source this kind of excess material from other brands and use it to make new SHEIN garments instead of going to waste.
What is deadstock fabrics?
Under the evoluSHEIN by Design initiative, what is the minimum percentage of preferred materials that an item must contain in order to be tagged “evoluSHEIN” on its product page?
What is 30%?
This is SHEIN’s newest initiative to get employees more involved in sustainable practices in the office (for example, recycling and composting).
What is evoluSHEIN @ Work?
Eating this kind of diet majorly helps to lowers your carbon footprint.
What is a plant-based diet?
SHEIN is installing this kind of renewable energy on the roofs of warehouse facilities and helping our suppliers do the same.
What is solar energy?
The Or Foundation, Africa Collect Textiles, and the Untours Foundation are all recipients of which SHEIN philanthropic giving initiative to help take responsibility for textile waste at the end of its life?
What is the Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) Fund?
The environmental nonprofit Canopy helps SHEIN protect this precious ecosystem from being used in viscose supply chains and paper packaging.
What is Ancient and Endangered Forests?
This is one of SHEIN's charity partners that will be receiving donations of left over SHEIN products to be used for families or resold.
What is the Boys & Girls Club of America?
Before you REUSE or RECYCLE, this is the best way to manage waste.
What is reduce?
These 4 words describe SHEIN’s unique business model that allows us to produce <200 units for each new style and only make more when customers show demand for it, allowing for us to minimize excess inventory waste and pass those cost savings on to customers.
What is small-batch on-demand?
SHEIN is a signatory member of this organization that aims to eliminate textile waste by 2050, which celebrates a special day by that same name on October 8th each year.
What is World Circular Textiles Day?
SHEIN joined this organization last year to contribute to research about fiber fragmentation and mitigate the environmental impacts of microplastics.
What is The Microfiber Consortium?
This is the name of SHEIN’s charitable giving entity for distributing financial donations to non-profit partners that support causes we care about.
What is The SHEIN Foundation?