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The RDS Responsible Down Standard is designed to document animal welfare information and ensure the traceability of down products. The RDS Responsible Down Standard is led by TextileExchange, a global non-profit organization that has been committed to the sustainable development of clothing and textiles. It aims to record animal welfare information and ensure the traceability of down products. . Please contact me for RDS related inquiries! Many brands have joined RDS TextileExchange, a global non-profit organization dedicated to the sustainable development of apparel and textiles, announcing that RDS, the responsible down standard they lead, is now widely recognized in the outdoor and even casual fashion industries. Pay attention, in addition to the early launch brand The North Face, Marmot, Mammut, Helly Hansen, Outdoor Research, Eddie Bauer and H&M have all pledged to practice this standard, and many other fashion and bedding brands have also actively joined. The Responsible Down Standard (RDS) was issued by the outdoor brand The North Face Joint Control Alliance Certification (Control Union CertifiCATions) and Textile Exchange at the end of 2013, aiming to record animal welfare information and ensure the traceability of down products. standard. Then at the Salt Lake City Winter Outdoor Show earlier this year, The North Face announced that the RDS would be fully handed over to the Textile Exchange to speed up the industry-wide promotion. After the standard is handed over to the textile exchange, the latter will have full rights to promote and update it in the most appropriate way, not limited to a certain brand, but the entire down product supply chain.
"Our goal of bringing the 'Responsible Down Standard' to the public is to provide a comprehensive and more responsible standard for any organisation looking to source down," said Adam Mott, Senior Manager of Sustainability at The North Face. The collective sharing of standards can positively contribute to the improvement of animal welfare and the traceability of down supply chains on a larger scale, which is far beyond our own efforts.”
At present, although many outdoor brands are working hard to develop chemical fiber cotton products with good warmth retention and light weight, looking for alternatives to down. But it is undeniable that down is still the best product on the market in terms of warmth-to-weight ratio in winter, especially in outdoor environments.
Down used in outdoor products, including a large number of down sleeping bags, down jackets, shoes, gloves and other products, a lot of feathers from poultry animals raised in captivity for the production of foie gras, is a by-product of the foie gras manufacturing industry, the industry is mainly Concentrate on Eastern Europe. Animal rights activists have come under fire for decades for mechanically savagely cramming ducks in order to harvest livers to make their meals on the plate. The brutal farming practice has been outlawed in California since 2012 and banned for several years in Turkey and several European countries. Earlier, The North Face announced that by the fall of 2017, all down products of the brand will be 100% certified under the Responsible Down Standard (RDS). In order to achieve this goal, The North Face is taking a step-by-step approach. In autumn 2015, the down products will use 30% certified down, and in autumn 2016 this proportion will be increased to 60%. In addition, the brand's 2015 autumn down products, its extreme down series Summit Series and all European models will be the first to use RDS certified down.
In addition to this RDS, Patagonia, another outdoor brand dedicated to environmentally friendly production in the outdoor circle, has also launched a similar standard - 100% traceable down, and announced that all new down products launched this fall will have traceable down labels. The so-called traceability means that Patagonia's supply chain is certified by a third-party authoritative organization to ensure that there is no living down collection and forced feeding in the production process of down products; suppliers of down raw materials must be independently reviewed and meet Patagonia's procurement standards. reach cooperation.