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OUR PRODUCTS

DISCOVER OUR PROJECT EARTH LABELS AND THE STORIES BEHIND OUR EARTH-CONSCIOUS EDITS

With our vision to reinvent retail, Project Earth is our evergreen sustainability strategy with an ambition to change the way we shop and how we do business. Our Project Earth material commitment is for everything we build, buy and sell to meet our environmental and ethical standards by 2030, and by 2025 the most environmentally impactful materials will come from certified, sustainable sources. Our Project Earth labels include five easy-to-understand categories (For Vegans, For Animals, For Nature, For Communities and Better Ways to Shop) to reflect our material commitments, help you shop with greater ease and enable you to make more informed sustainable choices. You can find Project Earth products in store by looking for the green signage or online by looking for items tagged with a Project Earth icon.

 For Nature         For Vegans         For Animals         For Communities

Better ways to shop           Our labelling criteria and eligibility process

For Nature      For Vegans      For Animals
For Communities      Better ways to shop
Our labelling criteria and eligibility process

THE LABELS

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FOR NATURE

From cotton and leather to paper and palm oil, many of our everyday staple materials and ingredients bear significant environmental consequences. Human impacts have already led to the loss of around 40% of the world’s forests, according to WWF, and we’re losing them at a rate of 10 million hectares a year – that’s about 6 million football pitches.

Our ‘For Nature’ label highlights products made using environmentally certified materials and ingredients, and products made with processes that reduce pollution and waste. Some of the standards and certifications recognised in this label include:  Forest Stewardship Council (FSC), Global Organic Textiles Standard (GOTS), Leather Working Group (LWG), Roundtable for Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) and COSMOS.

By choosing products from this edit, you’re supporting the use of environmentally preferred materials and processes.

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DID YOU KNOW?

Thanks to our Cupcycling scheme, which sees us work in collaboration with a paper mill in Cumbria, 20% of the composition of our iconic yellow bags is now made up of recycled coffee cups.

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FOR VEGANS

The beauty, food and fashion industries continue to use animal-derived ingredients and materials, yet the growing awareness around animal welfare issues and the environmental impact of industrial farming has meant that more and more people are becoming vegan. In fact, according to The Vegan Society, there are an estimated 600,000 vegans in Great Britain today…and counting!

At Selfridges, we’re committed to supporting animal welfare which is why we famously banned fur in 2005 and more recently exotic skins in 2020, and exotic feathers in 2022, head to our Legacy page to find out more).

Our ‘For Vegans’ label highlights brands that avoid all animal-derived ingredients, those working with plant-based alternatives, and products certified by The Vegan Society.

By choosing products from this edit, you’re helping to improve the lives of animals.

DID YOU KNOW?

Fur, angora, exotic skins and exotic feathers are all banned at Selfridges – not to mention palm oil from our Selfridges Selection range and single-use wipes from our Beauty Halls.

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FOR ANIMALS

Animal-derived ingredients, fibres and materials are important parts of our wardrobes and ensuring the welfare of these animals is high on the agenda for Selfridges and our customers.

Did you know that in Great Britain alone, a total of 3.4 million animal experiments were completed during 2019, according to Cruelty Free International, and when it comes to the animal-derived materials used to make our clothes, inhumane practices such as force feeding and live plucking of ducks and geese for feathers and down can be common issues in supply chains.

Our ‘For Animals’ label highlights cruelty-free formulas and animal-derived fibres and materials from certified, more responsible sources. Some of the standards and certifications recognised in this label include: Leaping Bunny, Responsible Wool Standard (RWS) and the Global Traceable Down Standard (Global TDS).

By choosing products from this edit, you’re helping to improve animal welfare practices.

DID YOU KNOW?

Fur, angora and exotic skins are all banned at Selfridges – not to mention palm oil from our Selfridges Selection range and single-use wipes from our Beauty Halls.  

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FOR COMMUNITIES

From field to finished product, millions of people are involved in the cultivation and creation of the products that we consume and use in our daily lives. Many of those people work on farms, in mines and factories, producing everything from cotton to cocoa to gold. Working conditions are often poor, endangering the workers’ health and wellbeing, and wages are often not sufficient enough to cover their basic costs of living.

Our ‘For Communities’ label includes brands that are committed to local manufacturing and products created with fair-trade principles at the heart of the production process, promoting fair working conditions, pay and more.

Some of the standards and certifications recognised in this label include: Fairtrade, the Guaranteed Fair Trade Organisation, Fairmined, Responsible Jewellery Council Chain of Custody and Rainforest Alliance.

By choosing products from this edit, you’re supporting supply chains that prioritise community and worker wellbeing.

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BETTER WAYS TO SHOP

Some say one person’s trash is another’s treasure, and we couldn’t agree more. It’s estimated that 300,000 tonnes of clothing ends up in household bins every year in the UK, and what’s equally staggering is that only 14% of all plastic packaging produced globally is collected for recycling, according to the Ellen MacArthur Foundation. 

At Selfridges, our target is for 45% of transactions to come from circular products or services by 2030. Our ‘Better Ways to Shop’ label highlights RESELFRIDGES, where you can discover products that are pre-loved, explore items made with recycled materials, rent your wardrobe from our buyers’ edit of stand-out pieces, shop our range of refillable products to help make your everyday routine more sustainable or make your favourite items as good as new through our repairs services.

Our ‘Better Ways to Shop’ label offers exciting shopping experiences with circularity at their heart, whether it’s coming into one of our stores to refill your favourite fragrance or exploring our collection of the best vintage finds.

By choosing products from these edits, you’re helping to make fashion truly timeless and reduce waste.

DID YOU KNOW?

As part RESELFRIDGES: The Wedding, you can now shop for that perfect, planet-friendly ‘I do’ outfit.  We’ve got the vintage clothing, accessories and services to make your big day unique – in store and online.

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MEETING OUR PROJECT EARTH CRITERIA

At Selfridges, we know there’s always more to be done to place sustainability at the heart of how we buy, but we also must acknowledge that there is no such thing as a truly sustainable product. Every product has some form of impact across its lifecycle, be that at the raw material and ingredient stage, or the production, use and disposal stage. However, each Project Earth-labelled product has to go through a strict eligibility process to ensure it meets our criteria, which is in line with our 2025 commitments. 

 
Selfridges takes guidance from third-party, globally recognised certifications (such as those developed by Textile Exchange) to ensure the credibility and integrity of any sustainability claims. We also recognise this isn’t always possible, and so where the criteria doesn’t directly relate to a third-party globally recognised certification, we have developed an in-depth assessment and evidence requirement process. Click here to view our eligibility criteria in full.

Putting the products through their paces

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PRODUCT LEVEL ASSESSMENT

The brand completes a product identification form where they confirm which products meet our eligibility criteria. 

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REVIEW

Our Product Sustainability team reviews the product identification form and assesses each product against the selected eligibility criteria and requests robust, up-to-date evidence – where required – to help substantiate claims. For example, if a brand uses certified organic cotton, then we request a copy of the certificate.

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APPROVAL

Once a product has been approved, we highlight it through our online Project Earth edit and in store with green Project Earth signage. Here’s what to look for...

HOW TO FIND OUR LABELS

ONLINE

Our selfridges.com Project Earth edit is a handy place to start, or look out for the Project Earth icon on our product listings.

IN STORE

Look out for the green signage in our stores, or speak to one of our team members for more information and signposting. You’ll find a QR code on each of the ticketing devices which you can scan to be directed straight to this page.

DISCOVER OUR SUSTAINABILTY JOURNEY

The past, present and future of sustainability at Selfridges.

OUR SUSTAINABILITY LEGACY
OUR FUTURE COMMITMENTS
DISCOVER PROJECT EARTH
OUR CHARITY INITIATIVES
OUR DIVERSITY BOARD