Carrefour has started rolling out environmental labelling on a selection of garments from its own-brand Tex clothing line as part of broader sustainability reporting and product impact transparency efforts.
The move, focused on environmental impact labelling for textiles, aligns with growing regulatory and consumer demand for sustainable fashion and retail environmental transparency across Europe.
Go deeper with GlobalData
Discover B2B Marketing That Performs
Combine business intelligence and editorial excellence to reach engaged professionals across 36 leading media platforms.
Environmental labelling pilot expands to private-label clothing
The French retailer has begun testing environmental labelling on around 70 Tex brand clothing items, including underwear, T-shirts and bodysuits.
Customers can access detailed environmental scores by scanning the product barcode using third-party digital tools such as the Clear Fashion app. Scores are expressed as impact points, reflecting the estimated environmental cost per 100 g of product based on life-cycle analysis.
Environmental labelling in this context assesses criteria such as greenhouse gas emissions, pollution, biodiversity effects and resource use.
These evaluations are designed to give retail customers and industry stakeholders clearer insight into the environmental footprint of textile products, in a similar way to how Nutri-Score displays nutritional impact on food products.
US Tariffs are shifting - will you react or anticipate?
Don’t let policy changes catch you off guard. Stay proactive with real-time data and expert analysis.
By GlobalDataCarrefour intends to review the results of this initial pilot before deciding on the most effective way to expand environmental labelling across its full textile portfolio.
Eco-score methodology and retail sustainability reporting
The environmental scoring system being used draws on recognised life-cycle assessment methods defined by French public authorities. Under this approach, lower scores indicate a lower environmental impact, while higher point totals reflect greater impacts from production and materials.
Examples cited in the pilot include organic cotton garments scoring substantially lower (less impacting) than comparable fast-fashion items.
Retailers and brands across France are increasingly adopting eco-score style systems for textiles, although such labelling remains voluntary under current regulation.
Some industry commentators argue that mandatory environmental impact labelling could drive more consistent reporting and consumer understanding across the sector.
For retailers, integrating environmental impact data into product information is becoming a key element of retail sustainability reporting and compliance, especially as consumers and regulators seek greater transparency on supply chain and product impact performance.
Implications for fashion supply chains and consumer choice
Industry analysts suggest that environmental labelling could influence retail supply chain strategies by highlighting relative impacts of materials and manufacturing processes.
Greater transparency may prompt private-label and branded suppliers to prioritise lower-impact materials and more sustainable production methods.
Retailers are also watching developments at the EU level, where harmonised disclosures for products – including clothing – are under discussion within broader corporate sustainability reporting frameworks.
Carrefour’s initiative reflects wider trends in fashion sustainability ratings and environmental reporting. As part of its sustainability governance and reporting commitments, the group already publishes detailed environmental data and is subject to European non-financial reporting standards.
This labelling rollout in France could serve as a reference point for other international retailers considering similar environmental scoring systems for textile products.
