Clothing Giant Is Accused Of Polluting Water Bodies Re Fall "NPE Door"

The NPE of clothing giant has been hard pressed by environmental groups in recent years.

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In November of last year, Lining, Adidas and other brands named by Greenpeace jointly issued a report and made sincere statements that they will achieve zero emissions of hazardous chemicals in 2020.

But Li Yifang, director of the Greenpeace pollution prevention and control project, said that these enterprises are indeed moving forward, but in 2020, there were 8 years in advance, and the progress was too slow.

Toxic water chain under NPE pollution

It is understood that the investigation report released by Greenpeace is still aimed at the toxic and harmful substances NPE (nonylphenol ethoxylates) in the production process of many international and domestic brands, and focuses on the NP (nonylphenol), a chemical substance that interferes with the endocrine system.

Unlike the six months ago, the Greenpeace report was built on the environment of researchers simulating standard household laundry. The washing effect of 14 samples including Adidas, Nike, Lining and H&M was tested. The comparative study of NPE content before and after washing of textile products confirmed that the pollution caused by the textile industry is not only confined to the production area, but also extends to the consumption area, causing toxic and harmful substances in the global circulation chain.

That is, ordinary consumers will passively discharge these substances into the water system in the process of daily laundry.

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This is the third report of Greenpeace on the release of harmful substances from well-known clothing brand products.

Last year, the group issued two related reports. The first one investigated the emissions of toxic and harmful substances in China's textile industry, and second confirmed that there were NPE residues in the products of 15 well-known clothing brands, including the enterprises mentioned above.

Drug companies have said they will solve the problem within 8 years.

In fact, when the second Green Peace report was released in August last year, the Li Ning Co made it clear that it would announce the response measures by the end of the year.

Lining did not go back on his word. In November 2011, three months later, Lining's official website said in a statement: "after a generation or a shorter time, we will achieve the goal of zero emissions of harmful chemicals in the supply chain and product life cycle through systematic changes.

Lining promised to zero chemical emissions by 2020.

In addition, Adidas, H&M, C&A, Nike, Puma and Lining jointly released the joint roadmap of zero emissions of hazardous chemicals in the supply chain system in November 2011. The roadmap pledged to communicate with all suppliers about the mission of zero emissions of hazardous chemicals, and put forward a list of chemical substances in garment manufacturing industry by the end of 2012, and publicly disclose pilot projects and research results.

These enterprises also disclosed the contact ways of the specific responsible departments, and put forward a positive attitude of "welcome supervision".

Li's side has affirmed the attitude of these enterprises.

According to her introduction, since last year's first report was published, Greenpeace and related enterprises have communicated, including Puma, Nike and Lining and other enterprises have responded and experienced repeated processes. At present, these enterprises have set up several project surveys, one of which includes investigating the source and scope of application of N PE.

She also pointed out in particular that the Li Ning Co statement was at least "a step away from nothing" in the management of products' toxic and hazardous chemicals.

8 years too long, detoxification should seize the day.

But in Li's view, this is far from enough.

She first pointed out that Lining listed the list of hazardous substances. "For most substances control is just copying the legal provisions, for the realization of the supply chain and products to completely eliminate these toxic and harmful substances, there is still a long way to go."

In addition, she thought the action was too slow for these enterprises to "achieve zero emissions of harmful chemicals in 2020".

"According to the current situation, by 2020, the pollution of rivers and lakes in China will be very serious, and the old road of pollution will be proved to be costly in any country."

Li Fang mentioned the "heavy metal pollution in Japan" more than 40 years ago, and even after spending about 800000000000 yen to deal with it, the pain caused by pollution is still lingering.

As to the adoption of N PE is the commonality of China's garment manufacturing industry, or is it only the big report mentioned?

It is reported that NPE as a printing and dyeing auxiliaries is not irreplaceable, Europe and the United States began to use substitutes ten years ago.

In this way, Lining and other enterprises really need to spend 8 years to "solve" these harmful substances, or 2020, is only a time statement.

In response, Nandu journalists tried to contact Lining's public relations department, but until the time of sending the manuscript, the relevant person in charge was always on the phone.

Viewpoint

NPE will not directly harm the health of wearers.

In a written reply to reporters in Nandu, Adidas said: "there is no evidence that N PE found in clothing will directly harm the health of wearers."

All our products are tested by internationally renowned testing organizations.

Our products sold around the world are safe and comply with all regulations and regulations.

Since 1998, we have implemented the "harmful substances restriction policy", and clearly targeted at improving the environmental impact of our supply chain.

The test results released by Greenpeace show that our N PE concentration is far below the target value, which proves that our policy is effective.

Over the past 15 years, we have continuously reduced the number of harmful chemicals and will continue to reduce the use of harmful chemicals in the supply chain system.