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We celebrate this legacy with our global sustainability platform that unites our brand's heritage of innovation and purpose with the responsibility to build a stronger and more sustainable world.

Hundreds of service hours

Every year our employees spend hundreds of hours volunteering for their communities around the world. From installing denim insulation after natural disasters to planting gardens, we encourage and support employees to give something back.

Worker welfare

The people who grow our materials and design and manufacture our products are the true fabric of Lee. To protect your health, promote your safety, and ensure your well-being, we have promulgated terms of engagement and global compliance principles by which we expect all of our partners and suppliers to abide by.

Zero Waste Distribution Centers

We are committed to incorporating sustainable business practices throughout our global operations and supply chain. Lee has achieved Zero Waste certification at all distribution centers in North America. This means that at least 95% of the waste from these facilities will be diverted from landfills through recycling, composting and reuse. We are also committed to further reducing waste in product design, retail stores, and conglomerate offices.

Savings of 1 billion liters of water in manufacturing

At Lee, we make sure to conserve water where we can. Lee has launched Indigood ™ Denim, a flagship denim collection that removes water from the denim dyeing process, producing more sustainable pants. Plus, in 2019, Lee celebrated the savings of over 1 billion gallons of water during the water-intensive finishing process of our denim products, and we're counting on.

Make Fashion Circular Initiative

Lee is proud to partner with the Ellen MacArthur Jeans Redesign Foundation. By implementing guidelines that minimize waste associated with denim production, establishing durability and recycling requirements, and ensuring positive impacts on the environment, this initiative is transforming our approach to design. We are developing high-quality clothing that is less harmful to the planet, our society, and the people who make our products.

Technological solutions to reduce waste

Lee has become an industry leader in the world of virtual design, using technology to revolutionize the way we develop our products. Our advances in virtual design technology have reduced the number of physical prototypes generated by 30%. Producing fewer prototypes saves the same amount of water used by 72,000 Americans in a day and reduces carbon emissions equivalent to more than 1.5 million kilometers of vehicles.