Working with partners like Transgender Law Center, ILGA World, BlaQ Aboriginal Corporation and more, we’re committed to year-round support for LGBTQIA+ advocacy, equity and safety. In 2022, we donated $400,000 to support NGOs doing critical work for LGBTQIA+ communities around the world.
Through trainings and skills development, we are empowering our associates and individuals across our supply chain. We’ve partnered with PFLAG National to scale gender inclusion trainings to associates enterprise wide. And by 2030, professional and life skills development programs will be made available to 500,000 women across the PVH supply chain.
We apply our iconic design principles to encourage freedom, fluidity and confidence. Our collections are growing to bring comfort to a full spectrum of identities and experiences.
We're consciously selecting materials made from recycled fibers and organic fibers, moving us toward our goal of 100% sustainable cotton, viscose and wool by 2025 and 100% sustainable polyester by 2030. In 2022, we increased the use of environmentally-preferred materials to comprise 32.6% of the brand’s global materials footprint, up from 22% in 2020.
We’re creating jeans with more sustainable materials such recycled and organic cotton, as well as lower impact techniques that use less water, energy or chemicals than industry standards. In 2022, we launched Earth Colors – earth-toned pigments partially derived from agricultural waste, as an alternative to traditional synthetic options.
Globally, we’re ending single-use plastic in all our packaging and eliminating unnecessary waste by 2030. To reduce our footprint, we successfully transitioned men’s underwear boxes from plastic to paper composed of at least 50% recycled content for all of North America. This eliminated the usage of 650,000 pounds of plastic from on-product packaging, equivalent to over 31 million standard-size plastic water bottles.