South Asian Textile Enterprises Lack Sense Of Social Responsibility

The vice president of Hongkong, who is in charge of global inspections and audits, believes that regional export industries are becoming increasingly unsustainable.

For brands, it is important to establish identity, real factories, real machines and real people, he said.

He said that global retailers need to ask their suppliers four questions: who are you? Where are you? What do you produce? And (most importantly) can you trust? Trust means product quality, safety, social responsibility and environmental protection.

He said that many developing countries, including China, Bangladesh, Thailand, Philippines and Indonesia, lack strong enforcement agencies.

Therefore, no one inspected the exploitation of workers.

But over the years, brands have already solved these problems.

Working conditions improved considerably over 10 years ago.

Health and safety, dormitories, toilets, infrastructure, changing jobs and wages have been improved.

However, stakeholders, such as

He said that there is indeed a pollution problem in Asia.

China's Pearl River Guangzhou Xintang town 40% of jeans exported to the United States, the local Pearl River is polluted.

Recently, more than 300 factories in China have closed because of pollution.

The western world is implementing relevant rules because they have gone through them before.

Western brands do not want the 4 billion 500 million Asian people to commit similar mistakes during the great industrial revolution.

Pollution control is a more urgent task, he said.

It took more than 200 years for the British Thames River to turn pollution around! In Thailand, when the industrial revolution began in the late 70s, inland water began to turn black.

Fortunately, due to environmental protection awareness, Thailand's water has regained its vitality.

The factory has a responsibility to ensure that they do business in a responsible way.

The problem is sustainability and the vitality of the ecosystem.

Only 3% of our water is fresh, of which 1% is available, so we must protect it.

If the management is not carried out according to the way of re responsibility, the printing and dyeing plant is a potential high risk environmental pollution source.

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