Hanesbrands CDP Water 2017 Report
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Water 2017 - Hanesbrands Inc. CDP Module: Introduction Page: W0. Introduction W0.1 Introduction Please give a general description and introduction to your organization HanesBrands, based in Winston-Salem, N.C., is a socially responsible leading marketer of everyday basic innerwear and activewear apparel in the Americas, Europe, Australia and Asia-Pacific. The company sells its products under some of the world’s strongest apparel brands, including Hanes, Champion, Maidenform, DIM, Bali, Playtex, Bonds, JMS/Just My Size, Nur Die/Nur Der, L’eggs, Lovable, Wonderbra, Berlei, and Gear for Sports. The company sells T-shirts, bras, panties, shapewear, underwear, socks, hosiery, and activewear produced in the company’s low-cost global supply chain. A member of the S&P 500 stock index, Hanes has approximately 68,000 employees in more than 40 countries and is ranked No. 432 on the Fortune 500 list of America’s largest companies by sales. Hanes takes pride in its strong reputation for ethical business practices. The company is the only apparel producer to ever be honored by the Great Place to Work Institute for its workplace practices in Central America and the Caribbean, and is ranked No. 110 on the Forbes magazine list of America’s Best Large Employers. For eight consecutive years, Hanes has won the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Energy Star sustained excellence/partner of the year award – the only apparel company to earn sustained excellence honors. The company ranks No. 172 on Newsweek magazine’s green list of 500 largest U.S. companies for environmental achievement. More information about the company and its corporate social responsibility initiatives, including environmental, social compliance and community improvement achievements, may be found at www.Hanes.com/corporate. Connect with HanesBrands via social media on Twitter (@HanesBrands) and Facebook (www.facebook.com/hanesbrandsinc). W0.2 Reporting year Please state the start and end date of the year for which you are reporting data Period for which data is reported Fri 01 Jan 2016 - Sat 31 Dec 2016 W0.3 Reporting boundary Please indicate the category that describes the reporting boundary for companies, entities, or groups for which water-related impacts are reported Companies, entities or groups over which operational control is exercised W0.4 Exclusions Are there any geographies, facilities or types of water inputs/outputs within this boundary which are not included in your disclosure? Yes W0.4a Exclusions Please report the exclusions in the following table Exclusion Please explain why you have made the exclusion Retail Stores / Water use at retail stores or outlets is judged to be de minimis with respect to overall water usage. In many cases, the water utility Outlets is part of a lease or rent calculation and specific water usage / cost data is not available. Hanesbrands is a growth company and has made (or is in the process of making) multiple recent acquisitions. Water consumption New Acquisitions and discharge data is not yet available for these acquisitions, but will be included in future disclosures Further Information Module: Current State Page: W1. Context W1.1 Please rate the importance (current and future) of water quality and water quantity to the success of your organization Direct use Indirect use Water quality and importance importance Please explain quantity rating rating Water is a critical input to textile manufacturing processes including: cloth bleaching, dyeing, and finishing. However, water is not as important to apparel assembly operations or distribution centers where wet processes are not utilized. Of the 70 operating facilities within the scope of this report, Hanesbrands operates eight major textile manufacturing facilities that accounted for 90.5% of its total water withdrawals in Sufficient amounts of 2016. These facilities are located in multiple regions globally. At its major textile good quality freshwater Important Neutral manufacturing facilities with on-site water sources, Hanesbrands also operates on-site available for use water treatment systems, customized to treat the incoming water source(s) at that site. This allows for the use of incoming water of lesser quality. Indirect water use also has a potential impact on spun yarns that are purchased by Hanesbrands from other manufacturing companies. More than 70% of raw material used by these yarn suppliers is cotton fiber. Cotton yields can be impacted by water. With respect to direct use, Hanesbrands currently does not operate facilities which are Sufficient amounts of located in areas where a brackish or produced water supply is available, either due to recycled, brackish Not very Not very geography or to local utility regulation. Regarding indirect impacts, as noted above, the and/or produced water important important primary raw material potentially impacted by water is cotton fiber. Most cotton used by available for use Hanesbrands is sourced from the low-irrigation and no-irrigation areas of the United States. Brackish water is not a viable option for irrigation. W1.2 For your total operations, please detail which of the following water aspects are regularly measured and monitored and provide an explanation as to why or why not % of Water aspect Please explain sites/facilities/operations Hanesbrands measures the water withdrawals for all facilities included within the scope of this report. Hanesbrands has access to actual meter readings and/or invoices that address 99.3% of total 2016 water usage. The remaining withdrawals (for small facilities for which no metering or invoice data is available) are estimated based on process knowledge and actual Water withdrawals- total 76-100 measured withdrawals at similar Hanesbrands facilities. Water withdrawals are reported to volumes Hanesbrands corporate staff and reviewed on a monthly basis. Water use intensity (water consumption per unit of production) is monitored on a facility-by-facility basis and is a criteria for evaluating performance (water usage intensity per unit) at both a facility and corporate level. Hanesbrands supplies its own water at 11 active facilities and purchases its water from a municipal or private source at its remaining facilities. Hanesbrands has confirmed the source Water withdrawals- of water for almost all of its outside water suppliers and can account for the origin of 99.6% 76-100 volume by sources of its water withdrawals. There is one textile facility which withdraws surface water from two different rivers but does not meter withdrawal separately. However, the confluence of these two rivers is immediately downstream of the site, so withdrawal is from the same watershed. Hanesbrands has access to wastewater discharge data (either by meter or by invoice) for 37 of the 70 active facilities within the scope of this report. This question is scored as "76-100" because almost all of the remaining facilities are either apparel assembly facilities or distribution centers which discharge only domestic / sanitary wastewater, which is not Water discharges- total regarded as water discharge per the CDP guidance document for water. There is lesser 76-100 volumes certainty in reported wastewater data due to multiple factors. First, some utility providers invoice the same quantity of wastewater as incoming water. For facilities with onsite wastewater treatment plants, there is the potential for rainfall or infiltration to increase metered flows, and there is also a greater potential for metering errors or discrepancies when measuring wastewater, compared to measuring water withdrawal. Hanesbrands has knowledge of the immediate wastewater discharge destination for all facilities. For all reporting facilities, Hanesbrands either operates its own wastewater treatment system or discharges its wastewater to either a municipal or industrial park Water discharges- wastewater treatment system Where off-site wastewater treatment is done through a 76-100 volume by destination municipal or private treatment plant, Hanesbrands has confirmed the final discharge body of water for most of these offsite treatment plants. In total, Hanesbrands has confirmed the final discharge body of water for facilities that represent 99.8% of its incoming water withdrawal volumes. Hanesbrands has knowledge of the treatment methodology (treatment plant, septic system, etc.) for 100% of facilities within the scope of this report. As noted in Question 1.1, eight Water discharges- major textile facilities account for 90.5% of water withdrawals. Hanesbrands operates its own volume by treatment 76-100 full wastewater treatment facilities at the five largest of these textile manufacturing facilities. method At the three other major textile manufacturing facilities, Hanesbrands discharges to a municipal publically owned treatment works (POTW). For these major facilities, wastewater discharge volume is monitored on a daily basis. % of Water aspect Please explain sites/facilities/operations Hanesbrands monitors its discharge effluent quality at all eight major textile manufacturing Water discharge quality facilities and at all other facilities which do onsite wastewater treatment. Water quality data- quality by standard 76-100 measurement parameters differ by facility, but parameters are measured and reported in effluent parameters accordance with facility-specific discharge permits and all applicable regulations. Water withdrawn at two textile facilities in El Salvador has been reported as water consumption due to the transference of water from the local