Our responsibility

The global problems of climate catastrophe and growing social ills affect every one of us. As a family business, we are particularly concerned with strengthening our planet and our society for future generations.

We would be happy to inform you about what we are doing and planning for this.

Three pillars of sustainability:
Environment, Social, Economy

Ricano sustainability at a glance

Social
No forced labor in our supply chain
Long-term partnerships with our production sites
Extremely diverse corporate culture
Ecological
Controlled wastewater processes in tanning
50% participation in CO2 offsetting of our customers
CO2-neutral logistics and delivery
Economical
New fashion lines with sustainability as a basic requirement
Major investment in information technology key to sustainable practices

Sustainable fashion

Many things play into the idea of sustainable fashion: how long a garment is worn, how often it needs to be washed, how it was produced, where the materials come from, and how and on what routes they and the end product were transported. Leather clothing is a particularly complicated topic

Ricano only uses leather that is already produced by the meat industry anyway - no animals are kept or bred especially for our fashion.

But even though leather would otherwise compost in landfills and release more greenhouse gases, we don't consider leather just a waste product. Read more at:

How we offset CO2

Our calculation for CO2 compensation (per leather jacket*)

There are three different ways of looking at CO2 emissions from leather:

Leather is a waste product of the food industry.
When this decays in landfills, CO2 is released. Leather clothing reduces CO2 because it prevents this waste.
Leather is a by-product of the food industry.
Since leather still ends up in landfills, no additional CO2 is produced for leather. So leather is CO2 neutral in itself
Leather contributes to CO2 emissions just as much as the food industry.
We ignore composting leather waste.

Our charts explain how these three perspectives affect the CO2 emissions we use as the basis for our offsetting.

1.	2.	3.

Leather is saved from composting	Leather is CO2 neutral	Leather produces regular CO2
- 188kg CO2	+/- 0kg CO2	+ 186kg CO2
	Transportation of leather, Tannery and processing
	+ 17kg CO2
- 171kg CO2	17kg CO2	203kg CO2

	Production and transport from accessories to production
	+ 5.5kg CO2
- 165.5kg CO2	22.5kg CO2	208.5kg CO2
	Tailoring of the final leather jacket
	+ 3.5kg CO2
- 162kg CO2	26kg CO2	212kg CO2
	Transportation of leather jacket to Germany
	+ 2.5kg CO2
- 159.5kg CO2	28.5kg CO2	214.5kg CO2

*We used two square meters of the particularly climate-damaging cowhide as the basis for one jacket. This is the average material requirement for a men's leather jacket.

Ladies leather jackets, pants, skirts, bags, etc. and those made of lambskin or goatskin are accordingly more climate-friendly. However, we do not want to make it so easy for ourselves and therefore calculate based on the worst case for all items. The climate thanks you for this math basis Sources of the calculations

214.5kg CO2 for Lederjacke: the climate crisis knows no easy way out

The various considerations on the CO2 emissions of a single leather jacket illustrate how complicated the issue of sustainable fashion is.

We're not taking the easy way out just yet and choosing the least favorable perspective - that's how we make sure we really make a difference with our CO2 offsetting. So if you choose CO2 offsetting when you make your purchase, you can be sure that you are not polluting the climate. Practically, you ensure a CO2 reduction in our athmosphere and thus actively do something against the climate catastrophe.

We will cover half of the costs if you opt for CO2 compensation when making your purchase, thus making our contribution to climate protection. Ideally, despite your climate-neutral purchase, you follow the simplest principle of sustainable fashion: care for and wear your new product as long as at all possible. Because the best consumption for our planet is still no consumption.

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