Nike And Adi Fall Into The Trap Door

In August 23rd, members of the Greenpeace group of the international environmental protection organization in Hongkong adopted the "referee".

At this time, there are 14 movements of the "detox-ing" (detoxification) character in the horse ridge River, Philippines.

In August 29th, in Zhongshan, Guangzhou, the dust and the machine roared. Workers in the factory, Zhongshan Guotai dyeing and finishing company looked at the staff's dormitory in a guardrail, but did not know that the directors were busy with international brands.

"This is a global issue". This event involves the most famous sports brands in the world, involving the most important garment brand market in the world, and more importantly, the virus is hidden in clothing. Hundreds of millions of people in the world are passively interacting with manufacturing enterprises to pollute the environment.

Poison in clothing brand collectively fall

According to Xinhua and other media reports, Greenpeace released an investigation report on toxic and harmful substances in clothing brand clothing worldwide in August 23rd.

The report shows that in 4-5 months of this year, Greenpeace purchased 78 samples of 15 clothing brands in 18 countries such as China, the United Kingdom and Argentina, of which 52 samples were found to contain toxic and harmful substances.

It includes Adidas, NIKE, H&M, CK, Puma, Lining and other world-renowned sportswear enterprises.

"In fact, we are concerned about water pollution and environmental problems. We have released a report on the global water pollution survey of clothing brands. We found that the waste water discharged from the suppliers contained harmful substances. In order to further confirm, we detected the residual problems of these garments."

In August 30th, Zhang Kai, director of the pollution prevention and control project of the Greenpeace organization, told the times weekly reporter.

This is the substance of the 15 famous sports brands in the world, which is known as NPE.

According to Greenpeace: NPE is called a nonylphenol polyoxyethylene ether. It is a common surfactant. Medical experiments have proved that these hormones may cause precocious puberty, and to a certain extent, inhibit the development of male signs.

When NPE is released into the environment, it will rapidly decompose into NP, which stimulates the simulation of estrogen and has an impact on the sexual development of organisms. In addition, NP can also exist in organisms in the food chain, even if the concentration is very low, it will also cause harm to the human body.

Some experts say that the extinction of Chinese sturgeon is likely to be related to a large number of NP in water.

"NPE is widely used in printing and dyeing and cleaning processes in the textile industry. It has good properties such as penetration, emulsification, dispersing, acid and alkali resistance, antioxidant and other five flower properties. With the addition of NPE auxiliaries, the printing and dyeing effect of the finished products will be better."

Xiong Xiaokun, a light industry researcher at CIC, told the times weekly reporter about the role of NPE.

NPE can not be eliminated?

When green peace "poison hidden in clothes" investigation report and press conference, Adidas toxic, NIKE toxic......

Many of the world's first-line sportswear brands involved, causing a great uproar in the market.

"I haven't heard about it. I'm not sure. If you suspect that you have quality problems, you can check it."

When the weekly Times reporter consulted the customer service department of the Li Ning Co which was accused of "NPE in 100% products" as a consumer, his contact replied.

When the reporter asked whether the quality inspection would incur the cost, when Lining was in charge or not, Lining's customer service department hung up the phone number of the reporter on the grounds of "I am not sure about the cost".

This response is quite the opposite of what happened after the Li Ning Co incident.

In August 24th, faced with the problem of NPE pollution caused by Greenpeace personnel, Lining buried himself in the report and did not face the matter. However, one day before the release of the green peace report, Lining issued a statement: Li Ning Co will eliminate all environmental chemicals in the entire production process of all products (including suppliers and raw materials suppliers at all levels) in 8-10 years, and achieve friendly emissions.

"No brand names have questioned the results of our report. NIKE and Puma have already made a pledge to eliminate pollutants in 2020. Lining made a statement the day before the report. The latest statement is Adidas, but we believe that there is no improvement in the statement made by Lining and Adidas. We will continue to communicate."

Zhang Kai told the times weekly reporter.

On the night of the green peace report, Adidas issued a statement that the NPE concentration of Adidas is far below the target value. Adidas has been strictly demanding the best standard in the industry with NPE concentration of 100ppm.

So far, Puma and NIKE have pledged to remove all toxic chemicals from their production chain by 2020.

As for the Li Ning Co's willingness to "achieve environmentally friendly emissions in the supply chain", Greenpeace said: "we hope that these companies can completely abandon the use of these toxic substances at the source rather than reduce them."

"We believe that on the issue of NPE, the main responsibility is brand enterprises, because brand enterprises do not have relevant policies to restrict environmental pollution."

Zhang Kai told the times weekly reporter.

Xiong Xiaokun also shared the same view. He told the times weekly reporter: "the individual thinks that the responsibility of the brand enterprise is bigger. For these well-known enterprises, the quality of the materials purchased should be restricted by strict standards, and they should be tested at the time of purchase, so as to eliminate the unqualified materials."

In addition, many brands in the 15 international brands released by Greenpeace have not yet made a clear response to the matter.

When the Times reporter called H&M, the customer service department official told reporters: "at present, we have not received any official notification that our clothes are having problems. Our clothes are tested by chemical methods, absolutely not containing any harmful substances to the human body, and some reports can be false."

Similarly, a female head of Adidas China customer service office, who refused to be named, told the times weekly reporter: "there is no data showing that the NPE content in our clothes will affect the health of consumers."

Earlier, when the media asked Adidas about "Green Peace's purpose is to eliminate and eliminate NPE", Adidas said: "NPE can not be completely eliminated in the production process."

But is this really the case?