SHEIN, a global online fashion and lifestyle retailer, is implementing targeted improvements across its supply chain, including advancements in logistics efficiency and waste management. These efforts form part of the SHEIN’s ongoing work to address the environmental impact of its operations and reduce greenhouse gas emissions where feasible.

New energy vehicles for Inter-Warehouse Transportation

SHEIN is integrating new energy vehicles (NEVs) into its inter-warehouse transport system in China as part of its efforts to enhance operational efficiency and lower its greenhouse gas emissions. Companies looking to adopt NEVs are often met with obstacles such as high costs, limited range, and load restrictions. The nature of SHEIN’s logistics model, which typically involves frequent, short-distance routes transporting lightweight items, makes it well-suited to pilot and scale such solutions.

To support this transition, SHEIN is working with several logistics and technology partners to develop a 9.6-metre electric vehicle as an alternative to its current fleet of 6-metre diesel trucks.

SHEIN plans to deploy over 130 of these EVs across its warehousing and logistics operations within China in 2025. Based on SHEIN’s internal calculations, this rollout is estimated to be able to achieve an annual reduction of nearly 10,000 metric tons of CO2e and cost savings of 20–30% compared to diesel vehicle operations.

Advancing Green Logistics and Transportation

Beyond the adoption of NEVs, SHEIN is also implementing various other measures to enhance logistics efficiency and reduce emissions across its operations. This includes:

• Multi-Modal Logistics: Optimising our global logistics network and route planning to promote the greater use of land, sea, or multimodal routes to reduce emissions.
• Air Freight Optimization: Adjusting cargo carton dimensions, developing new loading frames to improve aircraft capacity utilization, and introducing lighter, reusable gunny sacks to reduce packaging weight.
• Last-Mile Delivery Initiatives: Expanding the use of electric delivery vehicles in regions such as Europe while promoting self-pick-up options in locations where available.

Expanding Zero Waste to Landfill Certification Across Facilities

Four additional SHEIN-managed facilities have also achieved Zero Waste to Landfill certification, bringing the total number of SHEIN’s facilities that have achieved this certification to seven. In 2024, SHEIN’s Centre of Innovation for Garment Manufacturing and two other facilities achieved the certification.

These certifications were awarded by TÜV Rheinland, an international third-party testing, inspection, and certification organization. TÜV Rheinland’s Zero to Landfill Management System certification evaluates a company’s waste management practices, specifically its ability to manage waste without sending it to landfills. This is done by examining both the processes the company uses, and the effectiveness of these processes.

By gradually standardizing the waste treatment methods at its self-operated facilities, SHEIN has implemented a range of waste management processes that have helped all seven of its zero waste to landfill certified sites to achieve an average waste diversion rate of 99.59%, including energy recovery. This means that almost all of the waste generated at the certified sites is reduced, reused recycled or converted into energy.

These processes include the sorting and recycling of industrial waste, such as packaging, tape, and discarded paper, through partnerships with recycling providers

In addition, SHEIN repurposes materials where possible, such as converting stretch film cardboard tubes into safety pillars, reusing cardboard boxes and woven bags, and transforming waste textiles into products like canvas bags and hair bands. In some cases, waste textiles are even offered to suppliers for use as insulation material for steam pipes to reduce heat loss.