The Responsible Supply Chain Show
Feb 26, 2025 · 31 min · 10 segments
Simon Platts, the OG of Responsible Sourcing, built up the responsible sourcing practice at British fast fashion retailer ASOS. Now he's here to tell us how to look good, be good, and feel good. The…
Justin DillonHostNow I'm not going to have a, I'm not going to go into the whole she and rabbit hole because actually there's, there's a lot, you know, there's a lot of information, a lot of misinformation, the model only buy what you need when you need it.
very well very big does this create another bite at the the apple for brands to make more yeah to make money on something they've already they've already extracted the value by selling it at retail can they get another bite at the apple in this secondary market
yeah but in a in a smart way rather than a lazy way if you like so really it's about yeah creating value from products that in theory you've kind of sold and gone thank you very much you've got it you love it cheers bye come back and buy something else that's not what the game is about now customers don't just you know we don't consume like that we don't shop like that right but if we can start to if we are going to have stuff out there and we can get more value from it and keep it alive and keep it in the ecosystem longer and use it And if we're going to put new stuff out there, create it to be recovered and reused and recycled and put out there again.
That's got to be a better way of using resource than constantly just growing and taking and without any, you know, the linear model of take it, make it, throw it away.
Well, yeah, I mean, I've got a teenager's room full of basketball shoes, which apparently you have to buy basketball shoes for every game now.
Now I'm not going to have a, I'm not going to go into the whole she and rabbit hole because actually there's, there's a lot, you know, there's a lot of information, a lot of misinformation, the model only buy what you need when you need it.
very well very big does this create another bite at the the apple for brands to make more yeah to make money on something they've already they've already extracted the value by selling it at retail can they get another bite at the apple in this secondary market
yeah but in a in a smart way rather than a lazy way if you like so really it's about yeah creating value from products that in theory you've kind of sold and gone thank you very much you've got it you love it cheers bye come back and buy something else that's not what the game is about now customers don't just you know we don't consume like that we don't shop like that right but if we can start to if we are going to have stuff out there and we can get more value from it and keep it alive and keep it in the ecosystem longer and use it And if we're going to put new stuff out there, create it to be recovered and reused and recycled and put out there again.
That's got to be a better way of using resource than constantly just growing and taking and without any, you know, the linear model of take it, make it, throw it away.
Well, yeah, I mean, I've got a teenager's room full of basketball shoes, which apparently you have to buy basketball shoes for every game now.
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