Lining, Nike And Others Were Exposed To Serious Environmental Violations In China's Supply Chain.

　　 48 clothing brands are in the "sewage gate".

On the afternoon of 12 July, Wang Jingjing, deputy director of the public environmental research center, said in an interview with our reporter that they had spent more than 1 years with 4 environmental NGO organizations, including friends of nature, Dahl, environmental science and technology, and Nanjing green stone. After investigating more than 6000 domestic textile enterprises and brand clothing suppliers who had previously recorded pollution violations, they found that 48 of the more than 130 well-known clothing brands that had been processed by these enterprises had serious illegal sewage records, including Lining. Nike And Zara and other famous clothing brands.

In the report, the reporter saw that the above illegal enterprises were mostly due to private pipeline, sewage straight row, abnormal use of sewage treatment facilities, excessive emission of pollutants and so on. "Basically, they are organized by database." Speaking of the collection process of the investigation report, Wang Jingjing said that the public environmental research center started working at the beginning of 2006 to develop and run two databases of China's water pollution map and China's air pollution map. All the database data came from the relevant government environmental protection department's annual record of illegal polluters. Up to now, a total of more than 97000 records of polluting enterprises have been collected, including more than 6000 textile enterprise information. After identifying the enterprises, through mass search, official website, financial reports and listing reports of listed companies, we can find out which brands are "bridal gowns" to the brand operators.

　　 Many companies have not responded.

Wang Jingjing introduced them to the 48 brand operators CEO on March 22nd, 26 and 29 this year. After the letter was sent out, only 15 brands responded positively to these questions. Among them, Nike, Yida, WAL-MART, Adidas and so on have taken action and indicated that they will carry out enquiries and push events to be resolved as soon as possible.

According to her, the majority brand No reply has been made so far, including Marks&Spencer, Esprit, CalvinKlein, Armani, Carrefour and other international brands, including 360 degrees, Anta, YOUNGOR and other domestic brands. Han Zhongwei, who runs Metersbonwe brand, said the matter had nothing to do with the company. He said that the company's main business is brand retailing, and there is no manufacturer, so the company does not have environmental pollution problems.

On the afternoon of 12, the reporter called the Zara, Nike, which were mentioned in the report. Lining Kappa, Anta, Puma, YISHION, Metersbonwe, YOUNGOR, UNIQLO and other related departments, but as of press time, except for Puma and UNIQLO, the relevant telephone calls of all enterprises are unattended or busy. UNIQLO Shanghai headquarters related staff told reporters that she had never heard of the report and refused to receive further telephone interviews.

Wang Jingjing told reporters that they had received a reply from Zara, saying: "unfortunately, we can not answer questions from individuals such as schools, universities and professionals about our business model." According to the reporter's interview, the public environmental research center has 8 full-time staff members. The initial research of the report was conducted by 8 volunteers.

　　 Environmental groups have exposed Apple Corp.

During the interview, Wang Jingjing told reporters that according to her understanding, the pollution of toxic chemicals to the environment can be carried to the consumers' living areas along with toxic clothing, and whether other residues will affect consumers still needs further study.

Should the branding be responsible for the water pollution of the generation plant? A lawyer with environmental protection believes that although the supplier and Brand Company have an equal contractual relationship, Brand Company can also consider its environmental protection level when choosing suppliers. Although it does not have a legally binding binding force, it will affect the environmental concept of downstream enterprises, and then has to increase environmental input for orders. As a beneficiary of low-cost manufacturing, Brand Company is responsible for monitoring suppliers' environmental protection.

Jia Fengmei, President of Ji'nan Textile Service Industry Association, said in an interview on the afternoon of 12, that the branding should be responsible for the violation of the processing factory. "SA8000 is the" social responsibility standard "in the world. When foreign enterprises choose Chinese suppliers, they should choose the supply chain enterprises according to CSR standards. According to the introduction, the standards put forward strict regulations for protecting the local natural environment for the upstream and downstream enterprises of the brand industrial chain.

According to reports, in August last year, 5 environmental NGO organizations, including the public environmental research center, jointly issued a report, and released a map of Apple's pollution in China's supply chain.