Sustainability
in Action
We not only comply to sustainability, we believe in it.
The fashion industry is the second largest polluting industry in the world. Keenly aware of the social and environmental impact of the industry, TAL is wholeheartedly committed to raise the bar of the whole industry when it comes to sustainability.
TAL embraces a triple bottom-line sustainability framework ("People, Planet, Profit") which explicitly acknowledges the important relationship between the company's business performance and its social and environmental impact.
Planet
TAL commits to reach net-zero Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions across the value chain by 2050. Specifically, we commit to reduce absolute scope 1 and 2 GHG emissions 90% by 2050 from a 2018 base year.
We have implemented a comprehensive waste reduction scheme to improve production efficiency and maximise reuse and recycling across our operations. Since establishing our GHG baseline in 2009, we have reduced GHG intensity by 36%, saving 16,400 tonnes of CO₂e in 2023–2024 alone – equivalent to the amount sequestered annually by around four Central Parks in New York City. Since 2011, we have lowered our water intensity by 67%, cumulatively saving water equivalent to 270 Olympic-sized swimming pools, and today we recycle approximately 28% of our total water use across all factories. However, our own efforts to reduce its environmental impacts need to go hand-in-hand with those of our business partners and customers in designing more sustainable products, sourcing in a more sustainable way and educating their customers to have more sustainable purchasing practices.
From playing an active role in Cascale to sponsoring documentary movie “The True Cost”, TAL Apparel has actively joined force with like-minded industry partners to raise awareness and advocate sustainability in the fashion industry.
For several years, TAL has also been working with Redress – an environmental NGO to support the Redress Designer Award. The Award aims to inspire emerging fashion designers and students to create sustainable fashion collections with minimal textile waste and learn more about the environmental impacts of the fashion and textile industry.
With great power comes great responsibility. As an industry leader, we have a duty to go beyond the four walls of the manufacturing floor to involve the rest of the value-chain – the brands, the retailers, the suppliers, the consumers – and convince them, with passion, that we need to take better care of our beautiful planet and its wonderful people.
People
In TAL, our people are the most important asset. Apart from ensuring health and safety of our workforce, we are committed to providing our people an enriching career, with opportunities for self-development and growth.
Each year, workshops and training programs are offered by our professional trainers to equip our colleagues with both functional and soft skills. Upon completion of the program, participants would be awarded with certification of achievement to recognize their effort.
We work as a team, and treat each other like family. For that reason, we also care about our employees’ next generation. Named after our founder, the CC Lee Scholarship recognizes children of our employees who demonstrate outstanding academic achievements by sponsoring their overseas studies. We hope that not only our employees, but their next generation can also achieve sustainable growth.
 Look how excited our factory teams are to embark their journey in TAL! |  See the smiling faces when our Vietnamese factory colleagues gained recognition. Cheers! |  Every year, our CC Lee Scholarship supports the sustainable growth of employees’ next generation. |
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