2022-04-29 | NDAQ:REAL | Press Release

TRR Sustainability Calculator Now Quantifies Carbon Emissions Financial savings and Drinking water Footprint Reduction Across Five Classes

SAN FRANCISCO, April 29, 2022 (World NEWSWIRE) — The RealReal (Nasdaq: Serious) — the globe&CloseCurlyQuotes most significant on the web market for authenticated, resale luxury merchandise — right now introduced the enlargement of its Sustainability Calculator, a initially-of-its-kind tool that The RealReal created and released in 2018 to quantify the influence of resale. It initially measured the greenhouse gas emissions savings and h2o footprint reduction by recirculating apparel, and now generates cost savings facts for double the range of items on The RealReal&CloseCurlyQuotes market. Right after a 12 months of investigate and collaboration with environmental professionals and consultants, The RealReal Sustainability Calculator now also quantifies the optimistic impact of preserving purses, great jewelry and watches in circulation.

On its recent trajectory, the style marketplace is poised to pass up the 1.5-diploma pathway laid out by the Paris Weather Accord by additional than 50 %. But in accordance to McKinsey, recirculating a person in five garments by 2030 can in fact assist achieve that objective.

“For far more than a 10 years, we&CloseCurlyQuoteve concentrated on preserving a lot more than 23 million products in circulation in the pursuit of a much more circular future,&CloseCurlyDoubleQuote mentioned James Rogers, The RealReal&CloseCurlyQuotes Director of Sustainability. “Since its start in 2018, the calculator has inspired sustainable habits by displaying the discounts that customers personally push as a result of what they purchase and sell on TRR. I&CloseCurlyQuotem thrilled that the calculator now captures the impact details throughout even far more groups, and we appear ahead to continuing to reveal the environmental electric power of browsing secondhand.&CloseCurlyDoubleQuote

The RealReal&CloseCurlyQuotes Sustainability Calculator requires into account the impression of creation of raw elements as effectively as the pounds of an merchandise. For attire, TRR gathers effects calculations for materials this sort of as cotton, silk and nylon, and applies individuals calculations to numerous fabric blends throughout its complete stock. For jewelry and watches, impact calculations involved the elements used in straps and casings, including the bodyweight of ceramics and widespread metals this sort of as golds and silvers, palladium, platinum, brass, bronze and stainless steel.

From inception via March 31, 2022, The RealReal has saved 2.8+ billion liters of h2o (the equivalent of 12 billion 8oz eyeglasses of drinking water) and 52,767 metric tons of carbon (the quantity absorbed by 8.8 million trees in one yr) across all calculated classes. For specific types, the breakdown is as follows:

• Purses: 984M+ liters of water and 5.1K+ metric tons carbon
• Apparel (Mens, Womens and Little ones): 1.69B+ liters of drinking water and 31.8K metric tons of carbon
• Good Jewelry: 1.9M+ liters of h2o and 223 metric tons of carbon
• Watches: 145.8M+ liters of drinking water and 15.5K+ metric tons of carbon
  

The TRR Sustainability Calculator was developed in partnership with top environmental consultants Shift Edge, Inc., and Brown and Wilmanns Environmental, LLC, and follows the underneath methodology:

• Shift Edge, Inc., and Brown and Wilmanns Environmental, LLC, designed environmental influence estimates by seeking at the ordinary water and carbon impact of output of new products and solutions across worldwide source chains.
• The RealReal applied that details across its types and stock and created an influence calculation which combines the generation of uncooked products with the body weight of every product.
  • For apparel, purses and watches, The RealReal weighed objects throughout various categories in a extensive assortment of measurements and brand names agent of its inventory to ascertain typical merchandise weights.
  • For jewelry, TRR employed the precise fat since it is captured in their database.
• The RealReal then applies the All over the world Responsible Accredited Creation (WRAP) displacement charge of 33%, conservatively assuming that for every single 3 objects consigned, just one is not manufactured new.
• That closing details selection is what consumers see in item descriptions and on the gross sales pages consignors see.

The RealReal is committed to extending the existence of luxurious and is normally performing to incorporate more market learnings to evolve our calculations to further quantify the beneficial impact of the round overall economy. To discover much more about the sustainability calculator methodology and obtain the corresponding white paper, please go to www.therealreal.com/sustainability.

About The RealReal Inc.

The RealReal is the earth&CloseCurlyQuotes most significant on the internet market for authenticated, resale luxurious goods, with more than 25 million customers. With a arduous authentication system overseen by authorities, The RealReal gives a secure and trusted system for shoppers to purchase and promote their luxury goods. We have hundreds of in-property gemologists, horologists and model authenticators who inspect countless numbers of products each individual day. As a sustainable organization, we give new life to parts by 1000’s of brand names throughout numerous categories—including women’s and men’s manner, fine jewellery and watches, art and home—in help of the circular overall economy. We make advertising effortless with cost-free digital appointments, in-house pickup, drop-off and immediate transport. We do all of the do the job for consignors, together with authenticating, employing AI and device discovering to identify best pricing, photographing and listing their items, as very well as dealing with transport and customer company. At our 19 retail places, including our 16 shoppable merchants, shoppers can market, satisfy with our experts and get no cost valuations.

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