Higg Index

Higg MSI Higg Materials Sustainability Index

Cradle-to-gate impact scores for materials, used to compare one fibre or fabric against another at the design stage. An assessment delivered through a commercial platform rather than a published standard document. A facility or brand completes it, a verifier checks the responses, and the output is a score rather than a pass or a certificate.

Number

Higg MSI

Status

active

What this standard is for

What to watch for

Compares materials to the factory gate and stops there, so it says nothing about use, laundering or end of life - the stages that dominate the footprint of many garments. Comparisons drawn from it are only as good as that boundary. The publisher does not state a version for this module anywhere on its public site, so this record carries none. Ask Cascale which version an assessment was completed against before comparing two of them.

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Metadata only — purchase the standard from the issuing body.