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51 2021 ESG REPORT THE BIG PICTURE EMPOWERING WOMEN ENABLING OPPORTUNITY ENRICHING COMMUNITIES GOVERNANCE 1 DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT 7 CONSUMER USE AND CIRCULARITY Our Product Development teams are 7 We use product labeling, catalogs, C D O social media, and blog posts to educate N N trained to design and manufacture more A S A U N M N D T our customers on how they can wear, G C E I N I sustainable products, and have significant S E R R M C E P U U D L S care for, and discard their clothes to influence over who makes our clothes. O A L R E E I 1 V T reduce our products’ total environmental This enables us to address our wider E Y environmental footprint and improve working D footprint. We also engage in and conditions in facilities. See more about our contribute to industrywide solutions to assessment, water, chemicals management, reduce end-of-life impacts. See more materials, and circularity practices in our S PRODUCT 6 about our circularity in our Enriching L G Communities section. Enriching Communities and Empowering A N S R I I T Women & Human Rights sections. R S LIFE CYCLE O E E S R T T E E A A C S IL M O R Through product design, we seek W P A D to reduce our environmental footprint RAW MATERIALS AND R RETAIL STORES 2 N 6 PROCESSING (TIER 3 SUPPLIERS) 2 A and improve the human impact of our We are working to reduce our To minimize the impacts of the fibers business at every stage of a product’s environmental impact at our company- we use in our products, we place a life – from the very first design operated stores. We also run This Way special focus on cotton, and we are also ONward at our Old Navy stores, helping taking steps to source more sustainable concepts through materials young people experiencing barriers to synthetic and manufactured cellulosic sourcing, manufacture, and S N employment obtain their first jobs. See fibers. See more about our water and IC IO more about Equality & Belonging, M 3 T T climate practices in our Enriching A distribution to sale, use, IS U This Way ONward, climate, circularity, and N IB Communities section. U TE and end of life. OG R materials in our Enriching Communities F X L T A T S C I I and Enabling Opportunities sections. T LE 5 D U D R N I A N G 4 PRODUCT G N A I N H S D I N I F 3 TEXTILE MANUFACTURING 5 LOGISTICS AND DISTRIBUTION (TIER 2 SUPPLIERS) We use an optimal mix of Fabric mills use large quantities of transportation methods via sea, air, truck, energy and water, as well as chemicals and rail to move products from suppliers that may impact local watersheds if 4 PRODUCT AND FINISHING to our distribution centers, and then to not treated properly. Through our Mill (TIER 1 SUPPLIERS) stores and customers. We are working to Sustainability Program, we integrate Our comprehensive approach for conserve energy and reduce waste at our clear environmental standards into our improving working conditions in our supply distribution centers, the largest facilities sourcing decisions. See more about our chain combines facility-monitoring and we own and operate. See more about our assessment, P.A.C.E., water, chemical, capability-building programs that engage circularity and climate practices in our and climate practices in our Enriching our vendors to measure and address their Enriching Communities section. Communities and Empowering Women & environmental and social impacts. See Human Rights sections. more about our assessment, capability building, P.A.C.E., water, chemical, and climate practices in our Enriching Communities and Empowering Women & Human Rights sections.

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