BA Better Alternative

Budget cotton t-shirt

Assembled in Bangladesh

RED

17/100

Two suppliers in this chain appear in open forced-labour investigations.

Where your money goes

  • Garment worker wages 6%
  • Tax paid 4%
  • Shipping and retail 34%
  • Profit to owners 24%
  • Suppliers under investigation 12%
  • Undocumented no evidence yet 20%

Documented share of this chain: 80%

Better alternatives

GREEN

Fairtrade organic cotton t-shirt

Grown and sewn in Portugal

GREEN

74/100

YELLOW

Mid-range cotton t-shirt

Sewn in Turkey

YELLOW

44/100

Every rating on this page is invented placeholder data. The evidence graph is not built yet.

Why this exists

Buying something is donating money.

Whatever you pay goes somewhere: to wages in the country that made the thing, to the tax base of the country the company pays tax in, or to a structure built to avoid paying it at all. Sometimes it funds fair-trade farmers or a non-profit. Sometimes it funds child labour, deforestation, or an owner in a jurisdiction that answers to nobody.

People generally have good values. What they do not have is a way to act on them at the till. The chain behind a product is deliberately hard to see, and nobody can research a supply chain while standing in a supermarket aisle.

So we make the consequence of a purchase visible, and we show the better alternative next to it. The goal is to point the money EU consumers and companies already spend every year at causes they would choose if they could see them.

Facts before scores. Every claim we show will carry its source, its date and its status, and an undocumented chain is shown as undocumented rather than quietly scored.

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