Mi Hub's journey towards our wastewater commitment.

Mi Hub is a Signatory Friend of ZDHC - Vendor and have joined forces with a collaboration of brands and retailers, chemical, textile, leather and footwear industry suppliers and associations working together to support the implementation of safer chemical management practices within the textiles, leather, and footwear industries.

Mi Hub's pledge

Mi Hub have pledged that by 2025, 80% of our fabric volume will come from fabric mills participating in wastewater testing in accordance with the ZDHC guidelines: Roadmap To Zero - Output.

We have achieved our 2024 target - 70% of our fabric volume now comes from mills participating in wastewater testing in accordance with the ZDHC guidelines. See our full progress from 2020 below. 

An introduction to ZDHC and wastewater testing

In 2011, Greenpeace issued a wake-up call to the fashion industry, its stakeholders, and consumers with the launch of its Detox campaign. The campaign drew attention to the impact of hazardous chemicals in the manufacturing of clothing and footwear in production countries. Six brands individually signed public commitments with Greenpeace to commit to zero discharge of hazardous chemicals by 2020. This was the beginning of ZDHC’s Roadmap 2020 Programme.

ZDHC Roadmap to Zero programme is a collaboration of now 320 signatories of brands and retailers, chemical, textile, leather and footwear industry suppliers and associations working together to support the implementation of safer chemical management practices within the textiles, leather, and footwear industry sector.

The aim of the ZDHC programme is to eliminate the discharge of hazardous chemicals into the environment from the textile, leather, and footwear industries.

Mi Hub's progress to date

  Since 2020 Mi Hub have collaborated with our fabric mills and have encouraged sharing and transparency of their wastewater test reports.

  In 2021 our target of capturing 20% of our fabric volume will come from mills participating in wastewater testing. This was overachieved with a score of 36%.

  In 2022 our target of capturing 35% of our fabric volume will come from mills participating in wastewater testing. This was overachieved with a score of 53%.

  In 2023 our target of capturing 60% of our fabric volume will come from mills participating in wastewater testing. This was achieved with a score of 60% equating to a volume of over 8.7 million meters of fabric.

  In February 2023 - Mi Hub proudly announced that we joined ZDHC as a ‘Signatory Friend of ZDHC - Vendor’. Mi Hub will continue to recognise the importance that we, as a Signatory Friend of ZDHC– Vendor, have a responsibility along with our core suppliers to adhere to the ZDHC protocols and mission statement.

  In 2024 our target of capturing 70% of our fabric volume will come from mills participating in wastewater testing. This target of 70% has been achieved and we are confident in achieving our target of 80% by the end of 2025.