// Scotch & Soda teams up with Tipa on compostable packaging as part of its sustainability mission
// The fashion retailer aims to step away from conventional plastic polybags for all product categories by 2025
Amsterdam-based brand Scotch & Soda has announced a partnership with Tipa, which creates compostable and biodegradable packaging solutions to help it move away from conventional plastic polybags in its supply chain.
Scotch & Soda will integrate Tipa bioplastic bags into its supply chain, stepping away from conventional plastic polybags for all product categories by 2025 as part of its sustainability mission to contribute to environmental protection.
The fashion brand is committing to replacing one million polybags by mid-2022 by ensuring that its garments are packed in Tipa bioplastic bags.
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For spring and summer, the first two collections of the year, Tipa bags will represent 21 per cent of the total product packaging and will be used for high volume items, such as T-shirts, jeans, sweatshirts, sweaters and shirts, throughout menswear, womenswear and kidswear.
Scotch & Soda sustainability director Jelle de Jong said in a statement: “We believe there is room for improvement when it comes to the implementation, collection and composting of bioplastic packaging in the fashion industry.
“By working together with Tipa and local waste processors, we hope a product traditionally considered as waste will through the composting process return nutrients to the soil.”
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