Mango, the Barcelona-based global fashion retailer, is escalating its sustainability strategy on several fronts and setting new goals.
In addition, Mango has targeted using 100 percent sustainable cotton and 50 percent recycled polyester in its collections by 2025. The Spanish retailer expects 100 percent of its cellulose fibers to be of controlled origin and traceable by 2030. As part of the commitment it made after signing the Fashion Pact, in relation to its diversity pillar, Mango will support the Asociación Vellmarí, founded in 1993 and headed by Manu San Félix, a biologist, scuba diver and National Geographic photographer and explorer. The nonprofit organization carries out conservation and education projects in the Posidonia Lab, a marine conservation project helping to protect posidonia , a plant species of the Mediterranean.
• The retailer collected 42 tons of garments in 2020 through a recycling project with Moda, a recycling program based in Spain for the fashion industry. The garments are collected in Mango stores for reuse, recycling and energy recovery. In 2020, Mango had 610 recycling points in stores in 11 countries. In 2021, the program will extend to six more countries adding more than 200 recycling points.