Carbon FootPrint

CARBON FOOTPRINT

a further step to reduce the impacts of today and tomorrow

As a company that designs and distributes hats and beanies, we are aware that our items generate an impact on the environment and people. Based on this realization, we decided to embark on a path to reduce our impact as much as possible.

Our goal is set for 2025: to reduce the environmental impact of all Atlantis-branded products compared to current versions.

Where does this revolution begin?

The first step was to understand and analyze what represents us most: our hats.

According to the European Commission, Life Cycle Assessments (LCAs) currently provide the best framework, among those available, for assessing the potential environmental impacts of products by considering their entire life cycle. LCA is in fact a structured and standardized method at an international level that quantifies the impacts associated with the life cycle of a good or service, according to codified and recognized indicators, including the “Carbon Footprint“.

There are several studies available for textile products, but none that we felt were close to our reality. So we conducted a specific LCA analysis on the most representative products of the Atlantis brand. It is a study that we have been engaged in for over a year, including evaluations, data collection and in-depth analysis, also made possible by the strong collaboration with our supply chain.

The result?

As a result of this study, we obtained quantification of the Carbon Footprint (CFP) of products and at the end of 2022 this data was third-party certified in accordance with ISO 14067: 2018 (Greenhouse gases Carbon footprint of products Requirements and guidelines for quantification), verification certificate CFP51/22. The analysis enabled us to identify opportunities to improve environmental performance at each stage of the life cycle, providing us with sustainability criteria to ensure more responsible purchasing and production choices so that we could draw a roadmap to achieve our ambitious goal.

Our commitment is to continue to extend the analyses to more and more products, we will use data and information from scientific papers or tools and software to calculate the Carbon Footprint, as long as they are in line with the ISO 14067 (ISO for PCF), ISO 14044 and ISO 14040:2006 (LCA) standard.

WHY WE CHOOSE LOW-IMPACT PRODUCTS COMPARED TO CONVENTIONAL ONES

THE CARBON FOOTPRINT OF OUR HATS AND CAPS

*The comparative calculation was done through the sensitivity analysis reported in the Master Italia Carbon Footprint report, in reference to the WIND and HIT articles. The phases ranging from the procurement of raw materials to distribution to Atlantis customers were considered (weighted average of km per type of hat and for the different types of transport).

HOW IS THE IMPACT DISTRIBUTED?

a closer look at our products

The results of our LCA study highlight how material selection, along with energy use along the supply chain, is the most important element in reducing emissions from our products.

But how are carbon dioxide emissions distributed across all the phases analyzed?

The stages of the product life cycle analyzed below are: Upstream (procurement and processing of raw materials), Core (assembly), Downstream (arrival of goods to Atlantis warehouse).

*Calculation is an average of the CO2e emissions results between HIT and RECY FEEL caps for visors, WIND and RIO for beanies, and refers to Master Italia’s Carbon Footprint report considering the stages of the product life cycle from raw material production to product delivery to Atlantis warehouse.

Breakdown of C02 eq emissions by life cycle phases

From the study, it is clear that the Upstream phase of raw material sourcing and processing, appears to be the most impactful on the total lifecycle of our products. When we talk about raw material for Atlantis products, we mean all the textile and non-textile components that are then used in the making of a cap, excluding packaging. While some products are less articulated, baseball caps are among the most complex.

Starting from this data, we delved into the incidence of each component on the total emissions of raw material production, to identify those on which to intervene as a priority. The result was that yarn and fabric have the highest incidence, followed by the visor, also complicit in the latter’s weight in the hat’s total.

It was thus possible to identify the priority elements on which to intervene to reduce the impact of the products, especially in the more complex ones such as baseball caps.