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Kierto has gone AWOL
It looks like Kierto is missing in action for the rest of the year – but you can return the Kierto items to our brick & mortar store as usual....

Irresponsibility Report 2023
Breaking news - Varusteleka reduced their CO2e emissions by 1,200 tons!This piece of news could create very juicy clickbait headlines, but it would be blatant greenwashing. This is a fact,...

Project MEGA - GTFO of China Continued
Our MEGA project is moving ahead! For most of our Made in China products, the final shipments are now arriving before we shut down our production in China. One could...

Project MEGA - GTFO of China
We have mentioned a certain mysterious project MEGA a couple of times, and now is finally the time to tell a bit more about it. The Project MEGA stems from...

Behind the scenes: Varusteleka Design Process
For several years, we have participated in the Fashion Revolution Week by showcasing the companies that manufacture our own products. However, right now we are in the middle of a...

Irresponsibility Report 2022
We’ve made an inventory on our environmental sins committed in 2022, and here’s what we confess. In 2022, the emissions related to our operations in Helsinki became smaller with energy...

Operation Unethicality Program: Carbon Footprint 2021
So there it is again another year of emissions. For a couple of years now, we have been working on determining and keeping track of the environmental destruction caused by...

Varusteleka's own product carbon footprint
Hey gang, we have finally calculated the carbon footprints of the majority of our own textile products. Meaning the amount of greenhouse gases emitted in the production process of each...

Product carbon footprint calculation method
We have finally calculated the carbon footprint value for the majority of our own products, meaning the amount of greenhouse gases released into the atmosphere in the production process of...

Operation Unethicality Program: Carbon Footprint 2020
This is a glance at all the irresponsible and destructive things we did in 2020. Our business is to buy stuff and ship it around the world, so destruction is...

We and the environment are so not friends
Hey thanks for the prize Paytrail and everyone who voted for us! So, we won the public vote for Verkkokaupan Ympäristöystävä, something like Webstore Friend of the Environment. And we...