Clothing Industry: When The Environment Is Past, How Long Can Fashion Catch?

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Xintang and Gu Rao, the two famous "professional towns", are highly concentrated in jeans and underwear industry.

One produces more than 60% cowboy costumes in China, and another one can produce 200 million bras a year.

These two very prosperous towns are producing fashion and sexy costumes. They are also a microcosm of the pollution problem of China's textile industry and even the whole industry.

The head of the water pollution control project of the environmental protection organization said that from 8 to October in 2010, the staff of the environmental protection organization randomly selected 11 locations in Xintang and Gu Rao, and collected 21 samples, including water and sediment, and sent them to third independent laboratories for testing. Heavy metals were found in 17 samples.

The contents of heavy metals Pb, Cu and Cd in three sediment samples of Xintang exceeded those of the national soil environmental quality standard. One of the sediment samples was 128 times higher than that of cadmium, while the pH value of a water sample was 11.95 higher.

In many parts of the two towns, once the clear river channels are now ppiring, the air is filled with odorous or irritating odors.

There is no fish in the river. People can no longer drink the river water, laundry and irrigation.

The local residents are all wearing masks, but every time they approach the river, the smell of the river still makes them dizzy, vomiting and even suffocating.

Xintang and Gu Rao are only a microcosm of the potential pollution of the entire textile industry.

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In the eyes of people, clothing and environmental protection and "low carbon" are fundamentally not related.

However, many raw materials such as cotton and ramie are used in the planting stage, such as pesticides, fertilizers and herbicides, which pollute the environment. When raw materials are stored, preservatives, fungicides and moth proofing agents such as pentachlorophenol are used. In the process of weaving, oxidants, catalysts, detergents, azo dyes intermediates, formaldehyde and halide carriers and heavy metals are used in the weaving process.

These residues of chemicals will be released continuously during the use of textiles and clothing, causing various hazards to the human body: skin allergies (itching, swelling), blood spots or purple spots on the skin, some people suffer from ecological or allergic dermatitis and contact dermatitis; others feel respiratory discomfort, dry cough, and some symptoms such as asthma; and they can cause cancer.

According to a survey in Japan, one of the reasons why Japanese women suffer from bladder cancer is due to wearing chemical underwear.

Clothing also pollute the environment.

According to the environmental resource management company, a treaty of 400 grams of polyester pants, assuming that it produces raw materials in Taiwan, China, made garments in Indonesia, and finally shipped to the United Kingdom for sale.

Assuming that the service life is two years, washing machines with 50 degrees centigrade warm water are washed for 92 times. After washing, they are dried with a dryer and the average time is two minutes for ironing.

In this way, it consumes about 200 kilowatt hours of energy, equivalent to 47 kilograms of carbon dioxide, and 117 times its own weight.

Fashion = pollution?

It is not cold for a day, but the pain that fashion brings to us makes us pay an expensive environmental price. When we are going to heal the "hurt" of fashion, it is a pressing problem for us to solve.

Just imagine, when the environment has become a past event, how long can fashion still breathe?

1. regulation, regulation or supervision.

Properly increasing the depth and breadth of environmental supervision and law enforcement, the better the economic development and the stronger the competitiveness, we all know the truth.

However, in the current society, "benefits for environmental protection to make way" behavior is rare.

Some polluting enterprises tend to be local tax payers. The local government, in the light of economic interests, adopts the "no action" of the environmental protection department in the form of a clear or dark way. Under the pressure, the environmental protection department has to obey. In order to give a complaint to the complainants, a magic weapon for taking out the penalty will be imposed on the polluting enterprises to make economic penalties for not polluting their bones. Polluting enterprises do not pay much attention to the fines of the environmental protection departments.

Xintang and Valley Rao pursue development and abandon the environment.

The next way to go is to choose the local officials.

To avoid similar tragedies, environmental protection must be listed as a rigid index for performance evaluation of Party committees and governments at all levels, and a strict accountability system should be implemented to create a social atmosphere that respects environmental protection, pays attention to environmental protection and protects environmental protection.

Only in this way can we really change the "hard" environment and the awkward situation of "soft" implementation, and the problem of development or pollution will be solved. "Black G D P" and polluting enterprises will be far away from us.

2., strengthen private supervision.

Solidarity, cohesion of various social organizations and all aspects of strength.

In recent years, with the economic pformation, social pformation and the pformation of government functions, China's non-governmental environmental organizations have developed rapidly and the social role has been increasing.

It is a long-term commitment of some environmental protection non-governmental organizations to help the poor and solve difficulties and develop the green economy, pay attention to the vulnerable groups and safeguard the environmental rights and interests of the public.

As a kind of folk power, it has played a positive role in carrying out social supervision on the environmental responsibility of the government and enterprises.

We should strengthen publicity on environmental protection and raise public awareness of environmental protection.

Carry out publicity and education activities on environmental protection (emphasis on environmental rights and interests), popularize environmental protection and protect environmental rights and interests knowledge, and raise the environmental awareness of the whole people.

At present, the development of the network also provides convenience for environmental supervision. From the network, the public complaints about environmental pollution are increasing, more and more people are concerned about the environmental problems, and will also promote the environmental development of the Chinese clothing industry.

3., promote environmental protection clothing.

Clothing is a "big polluter". An ordinary garment changes from raw material to fabric, from ready-made clothing to logistics, from being used to being eventually abandoned, while it may cause damage to human body, it also emits carbon dioxide and has a certain impact on the environment. Therefore, it is urgent to promote environmental friendly clothing.

Environmental textile and clothing is the textile and clothing products that have the smallest influence on the human body and natural environment and have the characteristics of "recyclable, low pollution, and resource saving" in the whole process from the selection of fiber materials to the production, sale, use and disposal of clothing materials.

In addition, the concept of environmental protection will bring a series of influences on the selection of raw materials and the manufacturing process, packaging, pportation, sale and disposal of textiles.

It requires that the principles of environmental science and ecology be applied to the process of garment production and sales to form a pollution-free management system.

The popularity of the "carbon label" is also the best interpretation of environmental clothing. On the website of Danish designer Nina, each piece of clothing has its own "environmental instructions", from how the material grows on the farm to how it is handled after the old clothes are worn down.

Fashion pollution, as soon as possible to heal the "hurt" of fashion, it is your responsibility.

When we face our next generation, we should not always talk about how blue the sky was, how clear the water was, and how clean the air was.