Choosing our materials responsibly.
By using natural fibres such as merino, hemp and organic cotton, alongside our recycled tech fabrics, we’ve got your back (and front, and legs and arms) with responsibly sourced materials fit for years of adventuring.
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Recycled Fibres
Recycled fabrics keep waste out of landfill, reduce demand for petroleum-based raw materials, and limit contamination of the air, soil and water.
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Hemp
Hemp is breathable and soft. Plus it’s good at removing carbon dioxide from the air and keeping its impact lower than a drunken game of limbo.
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Organic Cotton
Organic cotton is gentle on your body, and doesn’t put chemicals or pesticides into the soil. And while its non-organic sibling takes pretty long showers, the
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Merino Wool
Our merino wool is sourced from Australian farms, and provides natural thermal regulation, stretch, comfort, breathability, and odour resistance. Hardcore credentials, and one of the softest fabrics around.
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Life Cycle Assessments
We measure our core products’ environmental impacts across 13 etrics, from raw materials to manufacturing and distribution, to work with our suppliers and other innovators to find ways to be better.
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Odds and ends
Some of our favourite environmental initiatives are also the smallest. Like recycling our fabric waste. Making hangtags and labels from recycled materials. And shipping our products in compostable bags.
We take ethics in our supply chain seriously..
Sure, we like to escape the crowds and talk to trees. But we care deeply about humans, too. Our code of conduct ensures all the people in our supply chain are treated well, paid properly and have a safe spot to work. And we take time to chat face-to-face with our factories – when we can get the trees to hush, that is.
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Code of conduct
All of our suppliers must sign our Code of Conduct before our working relationship begins
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In-person Factory Visits
We take bi-annual trips to our factories to meet and work with the people who craft our gear. So we can chat face-to-face, marvel at their handiwork, and make sure everybody has the support that they need
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Third Party Audits
We work with third party experts who measure whether we’re living up to our promises, and the impacts of all our practices. Why? Because full transparency holds us to be fully accountable. And helps us focus our energy in the areas we can do better.
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Honest Wages
All of our factories pay average wages over the minimum wage to their workers.
Certifications
We start every partnership with a simple question: “how can we support you?”
B-Corp
Certified
Proudly listed among the top 20 brands Australian and New Zealand
B Corp has put a microscope over Zorali’s operations and given us the green light. Ensuring high standards of social and environmental performance, accountability, and transparency. And we’re re-evaluated every 3 years. So we can keep sharing our best work.
Our Impact
Faith in the future, and a fire in our gut.
Protecting our business means protecting our planet first. We can’t have one without the other – and, call us greedy, but we really love them both.
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We are aiming for the horizon with our planetry goals.
We believe that good business allows us to do good things for the future. Big things. Planetary things. So, with our feet planted firmly on the ground, we’re aiming high across three planetary pillars:
Climate Action
By implementing Environmental Management System (EMS), and conducting Life Cycle Assessments (LCAs) of our main products, we’re tracking energy supply and use, water consumption and waste. And now we’re using what we’ve learned to create an emissions
reduction roadmap — steering us on our path to net-zero
Water Health
Bodies of water stir something inside us. Yet, from irrigation for our organic cotton, to every drop we use at Zorali HQ, water is essential to our business. So we’re creating initiatives to respect it, protect it, and reduce our footprint. Like transitioning away from known water pollutant chemicals, and cutting plastic and microfibre waste.
Biodiversity
Animals, plants, fungi and microorganisms work together in ecosystems — maintaining balance and supporting life. Strikingly poetic. And also essential for everything we need to survive. Via initiatives like regenerative sourcing of materials, embracing organics, and supporting projects that restore habitat and protect wildlife, we’re helping to shore up biodiversity. Keeping natural systems complex for planetary health, and fascinating for generations to come.