686 is committed to ensuring that animal derived materials used in the products that we sell come from animals that were treated humanely and with respect.
Our policy pertains specifically to the animals from which we derive our down and wool and generally to all animals and animal derived products in our supply chain.
Our policy is to have all animals from which we derive our down and wool allowed the Five Domains:
- Nutrition - factors that involve an animal’s access to sufficient, balanced, varied, and clean food and water.
- Environment - factors that enable comfort in relation to temperature, substrate, space, air, odor, noise, and predictability.
- Health - factors that enable good health through the absence of disease, injury, and impairment with a good fitness level.
- Behavior - factors that provide varied, novel, and engaging challenges through sensory inputs, exploration, foraging, bonding, playing, retreating, and others.
- Mental State - the mental state of the animal should benefit from predominantly positive states, such as pleasure and comfort, while reducing negative states, such as fear, frustration, hunger, pain, or boredom.
At a minimum we have the following requirements and we work with our suppliers and partners to certify that they comply with these requirements:
- Down
- We require that all down and down products supplied to 686 by our suppliers must meet standards that ensure that ducks and geese in the down supply chain are treated humanely and are never live-plucked or force-fed.
- We prefer down that is certified to the Responsible Down Standard or the Traceable Down Standard.
- Wool
- We require that all wool and wool products supplied to 686 by our suppliers must meet standards that ensure that sheep are treated humanely and are not mulesed.
- We prefer wool that is certified to the Responsible Wool Standard.
- Leather
- All products supplied to 686 by our suppliers must not contain exotic leather.
- Acceptable animals for leather include Cows, Sheep, Goats, Pigs, Deer, Bison or Kangaroo.
- All products supplied to 686 by our suppliers must not contain exotic leather.
- Animal Fur
- All products supplied to 686 must not contain animal fur.