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Five Environmental Organizations Jointly Accuse The Clothing Industry Of Water Pollution.

2012/4/18 19:10:00 15

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Textile Industry Environmental Protection Organization Water Pollution

In April 9th, the friends of nature, the public environment research center, Dahl asked the 5 natural environmental protection organizations such as natural knowledge society, ring friend technology, Nanjing green stone and so on. The joint Tencent green channel held a media conference in Beijing. A research report entitled "pollution for Shi Shangqing" - "green choice textile brand supply chain pollution" was released.

According to the report, after 9 months of research, investigators found a large number of large

Textile brand

and

Clothing retailer

There are serious violations of the supply chain in China, which have a serious impact on China's water environment.

Environmental groups called on famous brands to cooperate with the government and the public to promote textile enterprises to reduce emissions.

environmental protection

The responsible person of the organization said that after investigating the relationship between the textile products manufacturers and the well-known brands, the environmental protection organizations sent letters to the 48 brands CEO on March 22nd, 26 and 29.

16 of them responded and 32 did not respond.

Companies that responded positively include Nike, Yida, WAL-MART, H&M, Levi 's, Adidas, Burberry, C&A, Tesco, Gap, Lining, Target, Next, UNIQLO, etc. the enterprises that did not respond include ZARA, Marks&Spencer, E Splltter, Calvin Klein, Armani, Carrefour, 360 degrees, Anta, Anta, etc.

The most dissatisfied with environmental protection organizations for unresponsive brands is ZARA. Its disregard for the problem is a kind of conflict with social supervision.

Although the survey report released the response of the brand enterprises, but because it pointed out the pollution problem of the brand supply chain, its spearhead directed directly to our printing and dyeing enterprises.

The report said that after printing and dyeing finishing wastewater discharge accounted for 80% of the total textile waste water emissions, and the composition is complex, may contain a variety of harmful substances.

There is a voice that textile pollution wastewater discharge is a problem which is difficult to solve in the short term. In the absence of a solution, the problem will be thrown to the public, which will directly kill some of the textile enterprises which are originally profitable.

Ma Jun, director of the public environment research center, said that the fight against China's textile enterprises is certainly not their original intention.

They believe that China's textile pollution problems are not lack of capital and technology, but lack of motivation.

They hope that this activity can become a powerful driving force for China's textile industry to solve the pollution problem.

It is understood that the 5 environmental groups that held this conference are from the green choice alliance.

In March 2007, 21 environmental protection organizations launched green choice alliance to promote green production and procurement with green consumption.

In April 2010, the green choice alliance's first attempt to improve the industry was the IT industry. The textile and garment industry was the second industry that they chose to supervise and promote.

The reporter interviewed Li Jinbao, President of the China dyeing and printing industry association in April 17th, in response to the investigation report of "cleaning up for the fashion - green choice of textile brand supply chain pollution" (hereinafter referred to as the Research Report).

Li Jinbao first affirmed the concern about environmental protection expressed by these organizations, but pointed out that the scientificity, objectivity, comprehensiveness and timeliness of the report were open to question. We hope that all sectors of society will make joint efforts to protect our living environment while maintaining the healthy development of China's textile and dyeing industry, and jointly safeguard the sustainable development of the industry.

Li Jinbao pointed out that the data used at the beginning of the survey were compared with the actual situation before 2008, which was rather old and could not reflect our country's population status, per capita fiber consumption, the scale of the development of China's textile industry and the demand of domestic and foreign markets, the relationship between the distribution of China's textile industry and the allocation of resources, and so on.

The deterioration of water resources is an urgent problem to solve in the current social and economic development. China's printing and dyeing industry has been carrying out technological pformation and upgrading of equipment, and has done a lot of effective work in energy conservation and emission reduction.

Most of the printing and dyeing enterprises are concentrated in the Yangtze River Delta and the Pearl River Delta region. The corresponding sewage discharge is also concentrated in these areas. The water resource deterioration mentioned in the three rivers and Dianchi places in the report is closely related to the printing and dyeing industry.

In addition, there is no problem of heavy metal pollution and pesticide pollution in printing and dyeing enterprises. It is obviously incorrect to blame the printing and dyeing industry.