SUSTAINABILITY

BBC International LLC is a global company that values the importance of a sustainable supply chain. It is with great honor that BBC International accepts the responsibility of aiding an environmentally sustainable development, waste reduction, and the design of eco-friendly footwear. Our eco-friendly footwear is created by actively recycling materials and utilizing non-hazardous renewable resources.

Energy & Climate

Production Impacts

Production impacts have been put into practice to reduce consumption within our establishments. We have gone forth with the purchase of eco-friendly supplies such as water-based cement and exclusively buying recycled cardboard for our brand’s shoeboxes. BBC has also procured recycled upper linings and insole boards and put in effect the removal of tissue packaging completely where possible. BBC International takes a stance on box optimization by using soybean ink for printing hangtags and boxes, migrating packaging to polybags versus cardboard boxes, and reducing the size of packaging.

Material Efficiency

Our Closed-Loop Process is a series of steps that are used to increase the efficiency of materials. We begin by using materials for the insole board and vamp lining that are attained from previously recycled materials. As the material is received from the supplier and cut based on the paper pattern for the shoe, the excess material that does not get utilized in the final product is collected and placed in recyclable packaging. To avoid contamination, these packaged bins are set aside in a quarantined area for which then the material supplier returns to the factory and picks up the materials from our bins. The materials are then reprocessed and sold back to us again which will allow us to allocate resources to the most efficient and effective manager.

Supplier Management

BBC International is engaging in acquiring more information, and as we do, we are open to sharing findings and benefits of sustainability with our suppliers and business partners.