Nike

NIKE, Inc. teams are helping to create solutions to build a future where all athletes* — women and girls in particular — and the planet thrive. Our 2025 targets help hold us accountable to making a real difference. The FY22 Impact Report shares the progress we are making in all areas of our purpose.

Through Nike’s investments and partnerships, they’ve also helped drive significant positive change for girls and their communities. More than 375,000 girls accessed play and sport through Nike’s partners’ diverse programs, and they equipped more than 17,000 coaches with the resources to create more inclusive experiences for kids. In total, Nike invested $149 million — which represents 2.24 percent of their prior year’s pre-tax income — in communities around the world, with a focus on women, girls and our Black Community Commitment (BCC)

*If you have a body, you’re an athlete.

Nike’s vision is zero waste, period. To bring that vision to life, they take a circular approach. Nike help eliminate waste before products hit the shelf by using more recycled materials, efficient methods of make and smarter packaging solutions. They give products a second life through take-back services and we turn manufacturing waste and end-of-life products into new materials.

Eliminating waste from their value chain requires coordination across every aspect of the product life cycle, from ideation and creation, to sale, to recycle or take back. It’s a systemic and systematic approach, where every decision minimizes waste. To strengthen their approach, Nike focused on six areas: using lighter weight, higher yield materials; increasing pattern efficiency; simplifying molded components to reduce defects; using Lean and Six Sigma methods to address root causes; increasing closed-loop recycling; and working on breakthrough innovations that enable recycling manufacturing scrap materials that typically can’t be efficiently recycled, like leather and blended textiles.