Giving credit where it's due, Mango has made a decent shift toward sustainability, implementing natural cotton and recycled materials into some garments, via Sustainably Chic. Mango has even taken steps toward eliminating other toxic materials in its clothing, like polyfluorinated chemicals, which are extremely harmful to the environment and wildlife, via Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
However, even though Mango has disclosed the number of greenhouse gases their factories emit, they have made no effort to lower the number, via Earth.Org. They also have a long way to go regarding environmental friendliness, as only 44% of their 18,000 products are made with sustainable materials — with over half continuing to play a part in the rise of environmental issues, per Earth.Org.
What's more? Mango's code of conduct reveals that their garment workers are paid at the "legal minimum, not the recommended wage level," per The Independent. And when over 1,000 garment workers from 29 brands, including Mango, were killed in a building collapse in Bangladesh in 2013, a fund was created to compensate the families. Among the 29 companies involved, only nine offered monetary compensation and donations — Mango not being one of them, via Earth.Org.
