Pollution In Textile Industry Needs Urgent Solution

Become in China Textile industry world At the same time, the textile industry is one of the main sources of water pollution in China. In 2010, the amount of textile wastewater discharged amounted to 24.55 billion tons, accounting for third of the 39 industrial sectors in the current statistics, accounting for 11.6% of the total wastewater discharge volume of key survey and statistics enterprises. As of February 20, 2012, there were more than 6000 records of textile enterprises recorded in the pollution map database of China.

Recently, 5 environmental organizations such as the public environmental research center and the Tencent green channel released the report on the pollution of the textile supply chain, which has aroused the attention of the industry to the pollution of the textile industry.

　　 Serious pollution in textile industry

According to the statistics of China Textile Industry Association, in 2010, the total fiber processing in China's textile industry amounted to 41 million 300 thousand tons, accounting for 52%~54% of the world total; the total export volume of textiles and clothing in China amounted to 212 billion US dollars in the whole year, accounting for 34% of the world's total exports.

But over the years, China's environmental statistics show that textile industry is a major pollutant exporters in key industries. In 2010, the amount of textile wastewater discharged amounted to 24.55 billion tons, accounting for third of the 39 industrial sectors in the current statistics, accounting for 11.6% of the total wastewater discharge volume of key survey and statistics enterprises. Among them, the COD emission is about 300 thousand and 600 tons, the pollution contribution rate is 8.2%, and the ammonia nitrogen emission is 17 thousand and 400 tons, accounting for 7.1% of the ammonia nitrogen emissions from the key survey and statistics enterprises.

Public Environmental Research Center Ma Jun told China joint business daily and other media that in the textile industry, dyeing and finishing (printing and dyeing and post-processing) accounted for more than 80% of wastewater, and chemical fiber production wastewater accounted for about 12%. The other 8% were other textile wastewater (2004 industry estimation data). "From the regional perspective, the total dyeing and finishing wastewater in Zhejiang, Jiangsu, Shandong, Guangdong and Fujian accounted for 90% of the total dyeing and finishing wastewater discharge in China."

In addition, as an important source of water pollution, China's textile industry also consumes huge water resources and lagged far behind other parts of the world in terms of water resources utilization efficiency. According to the report on prevention and control of industrial pollution in key industries in 2008, the average content of pollutants in China's printing and dyeing wastewater is 2~3 times higher than that of abroad, while the water consumption is as high as 3~4 times. At the same time, printing and dyeing wastewater is not only the main pollutant in the industry, but also the sludge produced by printing and dyeing waste water has some problems.

In response, the competent environmental protection department made the following comments in 2007: "most printing and dyeing enterprises in China, especially small and medium-sized enterprises, are at the beginning of 1980s, and energy and resources consumption is several times higher than that of developed countries, such as advanced countries. fibre The water consumption of printing and dyeing is about 100 tons, while China generally is 300~400 tons. Most of the printing and dyeing enterprises adopt the single stage aerobic treatment process. Although some pollutants are removed, a large number of toxic and harmful substances, such as cyanide, are discharged into rivers and lakes, causing pollution to the water bodies.

At present, many textile enterprises have records of environmental violations, and even fail to achieve stable discharge. By the end of February 20, 2012, there were more than 6000 records of textile enterprises in the enterprises with irregularities exceeding the records recorded in China's pollution map database. Among the 48 well-known brands surveyed by the public environment research center, there are 46 brands of supply chain which have illegal emissions problems, including famous brands at home and abroad, such as Nike, H&&M, Levi, s, Adidas, Burberry Esprit, Calvin Klein, Armani, Anta, YOUNGOR (600177, stock bar), and retailers, such as Tesco, WAL-MART, Carrefour, Messi general store, Taghit and other enterprises.

　　 Pollution remediation requires multi stakeholder participation

Textile industry pollution remediation effect is not ideal. It is understood that the Ministry of environmental protection intends to implement the total amount control of pollutants in the printing and dyeing industry of the textile industry.

According to the plan of the Ministry of environmental protection, the Ministry of environmental protection intends to control the total amount of pollutants in four industries, such as electricity, steel, printing and dyeing and paper making. But electricity and steel are relatively easy. Most of them are central enterprises, and their emission reduction is mainly focused on the Ministry of environmental protection and the SASAC. But printing and dyeing are different, many of them are small and medium-sized enterprises, no matter whether they are sent to industry associations or local governments.

Some experts say that it is not enough to rely solely on government regulation. Some environmental and economic policies can be adopted. Specifically, at the front end, raising the water price of industrial water will give the textile industry a clear signal that the price of water resources will rise for a long time, thereby enhancing the power of efficient water conservation. At the end, it will stimulate enterprises to actively reduce emissions by raising the COD and ammonia nitrogen pollutant discharge fees.

Ma Jun told the China United Business Daily that the environmental protection department should further expand environmental information disclosure, publish the environmental supervision records of textile enterprises in a comprehensive, timely and complete manner, and at the same time push enterprises to publish their emissions and resource consumption data, so as to enhance public supervision of enterprises.

It is understood that since 2003, the Chinese government has promulgated a series of regulations and policies to promote environmental information disclosure and public participation. China's public awareness of the environment has been constantly improving, and the capacity of environmental protection organizations has been continuously strengthened. Enterprises are also beginning to realize the importance of environmental protection. All these have laid the foundation for solving the problem of environmental pollution through extensive cooperation between the public and private sectors.

Outside the environmental protection department, Textile industry The pollution problem also requires the participation of the business sector. The textile industry is a highly energy consuming and highly polluting industry. A large part of its products are exported to foreign countries. It belongs to the typical type of products exported abroad and the type of pollution left in the country. It is suggested that the commerce department should make appropriate restrictions on the export of textiles, such as levying higher export tariffs.