China Faces Environmental Pollution As A Textile Raw Material Processing Plant

Five non-governmental environmental organizations, friends of nature, public and Environmental Affairs Research Institute (IPE), green beagle, Envirofriends and Nanjing green stone jointly released the second stage cleaning report of the fashion industry in Beijing.

The report highlights

Some big apparel brand supply chains still have serious shortcomings. The report calls on Chinese and overseas consumers to use their voices to push these brands to take up their environmental responsibilities.

In recent years, we have begun to see more large international brands and retailers moving their orders out of China.

Clothing labels of more and more American and European shopping malls show that these garments are produced in Southeast Asia, South Asia and even Africa.

However, when studying this problem in detail, we find that the decrease in textile export share is mainly concentrated in the garment processing industry.

In the raw material processing industry, such as dyeing and finishing, China still maintains the leading position in the world, and exports are still rising steadily.

Because China is

We still have many advantages over other textile exporting countries. Therefore, we anticipate that for the world, China will continue to be a textile raw material processing and manufacturing plant in the future.

From an economic standpoint, China may lose its share in this new round of global labour force distribution.

However, from an environmental and social perspective, the redistribution of industries in various countries is even more worrying.

China is losing the labor intensive clothing cutting and sewing industry in the textile industry.

This industry can provide a large number of employment opportunities, and more importantly, water consumption, energy consumption and pollution emissions are negligible.

China's textile industry has retained the resource intensive dyeing and finishing industry.

The industry can not provide a large number of employment opportunities, water consumption, energy consumption and pollution emissions are very large.

China's current air and water

Very serious, therefore, in order to mitigate the toxic effects of industrial development on China's environment, we must strictly control pollution emissions.

However, the law enforcement is not strict, and the cost of resources is also very low, such as water.

This means that dyeing and finishing companies usually skip water or energy conservation, do not work hard to reduce pollution emissions, or even fail to comply with environmental laws and regulations for a long time.

Reducing pollution emissions has become the focus of society.

Central and local governments, as well as the general public and textile industry associations are working hard to strengthen environmental management and promote textile enterprises to reduce energy consumption and pollution emissions.

Many clothing brands and retailers are continuing to implement their purchasing policies.