The Truth Is Creepy! We Pay A Heavy Price For A Pair Of Jeans.

If I talk about the most popular single item in the fashion industry, I think it's not a pair of jeans. Jeans have far exceeded the "fashion" category and become the most common basic items in people's wardrobe. It may be the only fashion item that breaks the barriers of the class.

People can buy different prices of jeans according to their spending power in the first tier, luxury brands, fast fashion brand stores, chain supermarkets, wholesale markets or even night market roadside stalls. The jeans priced at one thousand yuan and the jeans priced at ninety-nine yuan are not very different in appearance. They are washed, knives, and holes. They are all the most popular fashion factors.

　 Another thing in common is that both expensive and cheap jeans mean evil.

When you walk into a fast selling fashion store, you can see a lot of jeans on the shelves. All kinds of deep blue are so fascinating that blue is a kind of stress relief that makes people feel happy.

But after you finish reading this article, you can see that these blue will never calm you down again.

Jeans, a modern fashion with almost one hand in hand, is built on the great damage to the ecological environment and the workers working on the waterline.

As one of the largest textile exporters in the world, China has more than 50000 textile factories located in Guangdong, Zhejiang, Jiangsu, Shanghai and Shandong. The textile industry has provided a large number of employment opportunities for China, and textile products exported to all over the world have also brought a lot of income to China.

At the same time, the current situation of China's processing industry is that local products may earn only 1% of the processing cost, but on our land, 100% of pollution and injury are left behind.

In the German documentary "the price of jeans", the pollution and harm caused by jeans production completely subverted people's cognition of jeans and fashion industry, and the dark scenes were shocking.

　　 The film is so good, so good that it makes people afraid, because we can feel secure about our ignorance, so many times, we prefer no one to wake us up and let us see the truth.

I will introduce the film according to my thoughts, which is not strictly following the narrative order. I hope more people will read the whole picture after I have read my introduction.

　　 1, a pair of jeans =3480 water, while wasting, while polluting.

The sewage discharged from a cowboy washing water plant in Xintang is directly discharged into the small rivers winding around the village without any treatment, and these rivers eventually flow to Dongjiang River.

The US Time magazine reported that in 2007, a pair of jeans made by a US brand made an assessment of the resources needed for making a pair of jeans. The result was a startling discovery that jeans were made almost entirely of water, from cotton fields to cotton cloth to washing machines. In fact, a pair of jeans needed 3480 liters of water in their lifetime. If the adults consumed two liters of water a day, the water consumption of a pair of jeans would be enough to meet the water intake of an adult close to five years.

Perhaps you will retort that cotton cloth is not only used for making jeans. If jeans are so expensive, are other cotton products not the same?

No, you are wrong, much worse, because other cotton products are not like jeans, so you need to use many chemical materials to achieve the effect of washing old water. If you don't know what to do in old water washing, look at the jeans below, the faded parts near the knees, the wrinkles in the thighs, and the worn parts in some styles are all deliberately manufactured "old" effects.

Acrylic resins, adhesives, bleaching powder, phenolic compounds, even carbon compounds, hypochlorite, potassium metal, azo dyes, Potassium Permanganate, chromium, cadmium and other heavy metal materials that you call or are not named are all necessities for jeans to become "fashionable".

Every ton of cowboy products will pollute 200 tons of water. It is more intuitive to say that 1 litres of water, or 3 pairs of jeans, need 200 litres of water. About 2500 chemicals will be used in dyeing and finishing of different cowboy products.

The cowboy textile and garment business in Xintang began in 1980s. Dun village was one of the first villages to assemble a group of jeans producers. On the satellite map, it can be clearly seen that a river near Dasun village, in the mouth of the Dongjiang River, is in sharp contrast to the black river and the light colored river.

The villagers said that when the sewage was serious, the river here was no longer sewage, but poisonous water. It tastes bad and irritates. If you don't touch it, your skin will itch or even ulcerate.

In order to achieve the quality inspection standard at the time of export, the jeans factories of the raw and processed factories have repeatedly washed so that customers who are far from Europe and America can not perceive the existence of chemicals. A pair of jeans needs to be dehydrated and worn for 20 times before they leave the factory, then they are worn, bleached and re colored. In order to wash as clean as possible, a large amount of surfactants will be added to the water. After that, the sewage was discharged directly into the ditch without any treatment, and eventually it entered the Pearl River.

However, such washing is just a walk away, so that jeans are not so pungent. Actually, the damage to humans has not been significantly reduced. When the skin is sweating, these toxic carcinogens hidden in cowboy cloth will be released and will directly contact your skin. After wasting and polluting so much water, what I have achieved is just a self deception. I really don't know whether to laugh or cry.

　 2, illegal production behind jeans, sweatshops do not destroy workers' health.

In every aspect of jeans production, people stop their machines and workers take turns working night shifts and day shifts.

After a busy night, a worker can finally have a rest. Sadly, the blue dust on jeans is ruthlessly eroding their lungs.

Working fifteen or six hours a day, high intensity work that can only rest for one day a month is just the milder harm this worker brings to workers. It is possible to touch the carcinogenic substances left on jeans when they are dressed, and what about the workers who produce them?

They do not know that they are simply unable to choose from their livelihood. For example, sandblasting has been banned in the world as an illegal jeans processing technology, but it can be carried out openly in factories in China.

Silicosis is a silicosis before. Silicosis is a kind of pneumoconiosis, and it is a serious occupational disease. The free silica dust accumulated through the respiratory tract on human alveoli, affecting the gas exchange, and finally the human alveoli lost its role and the lung tissue was all fibrotic. With the common people's words, the lung becomes a lump.

The Ministry of health has talked about the lavage treatment for silicosis patients: general anesthesia for patients, irrigation and rinsing in the lungs, turbidity, and static water for a period of time. The water will be divided into two layers: water and sediment. At present, There is no cure for silicosis in the world, and silicosis is the death penalty.

This 60 year old worker, Hu Xinglei, is actually only 40 years old. He used to do sandblasting. After he had coughed and coughed, he changed to work in the laundry room. His wages were much lower than before, and he also had to endure the torment of high temperature and stench.

Some ignorant young people do not know what the present labor means for their future. The following young people are like the food of the jeans factory. They will be spit out after a few years and become a wreck. The experience of Hu Xinglei is their tomorrow.

This purple spray is highly corrosive. However, this young worker does not wear masks when working. Because of the poor ventilation and exhaust equipment, the workshops are stuffy and scary, and the workers have to wear very little, so they have no time to consider whether the chemical materials will stick to their bodies.

Compared with the fatal silicosis, other dust and noise pollution seems to be very light.

3, the cost of 4.3 Euro jeans, carrying a lot.

I have repeatedly mocked the fast fashion brands, led by H&M and ZARA, because they have to bear the greatest responsibility for the evil committed by jeans.

Their business strategy is to constantly stimulate consumers' desire to buy goods with low quality but low fashion. If the price of a pair of jeans is 200 euros, the middle and lower class consumer groups may only buy one in a year, and will wear it for at least five years.

But now people can buy 9.9 Euro jeans in H&M, WAL-MART and other stores. Even if they are migrant workers, they can buy one or two pairs of clothes every month without pressure.

In Britain, people now have 4 times as many clothes as they did 30 years ago. Each person spends an average of 625 pounds a year on clothes, 28 kilograms of new clothes each year, and 1 million 720 thousand tons of fashion products every year. It is worth noting that the same weight clothes are thrown into the trash cans each year, though they are far from old clothes.

Although China is only a developing country, I think the situation is almost the same. The cheaper and cheaper clothing prices and the more convenient shopping method are the culprits to promote the over purchasing of consumers. The 9.9 European jeans are the best manifestation of the lipstick effect.

As we all know, lipstick effect is a barometer of economic development, also known as the "low price product preference trend". Simply speaking, under the environment of economic recession, such "not necessarily small luxury" such as lipstick, perfume, jeans and movie tickets will become a large consumer of consumer desire, and its sales volume is even far higher than that of the economy.

　　 Because people's consumption power will be affected by the economic environment, but people's consumption desire will not disappear with the decline of consumption ability.

I can't afford to buy expensive things and buy a cheap one.

This low price product favors the trend of mentality, but also applies to the current 90% of the consumers who are not strong in spending power, but the consumption desire is strong. The jeans sold in fast fashion brands are just like ten yuan a bottle of nail polish and twenty yuan per lipstick in the checker shop outside the school, which can satisfy their consumption desire and satisfy their fancy in the front end of fashion.

Now the trend of public opinion is to laugh at the new rich people's pursuit of luxury brands. They think they are "stupid money", and spend tens of thousands of dollars to buy a piece of clothes and a bag, which is a waste of money.

But I want to tell you a cruel truth that the real waste of today's society is not the blind pursuit of high quality consumer groups for handmade luxury goods, but also the excessive consumption of the fast fashion brands made by low and middle consumption groups.

　　 This is the rule of the jeans Market: people want cheap pants but don't want to wear them too long.

Because almost every week, fast fashion brands will introduce new styles to tell them that this is the most popular nowadays. They need to buy new ones as soon as possible, so new jeans need to look like the old ones. The people who suffer from this delusional storm are people and their natural environment.

The H&M stream sells jeans so cheap that it is not for charity, they give producers price, not more than 4.3 euros per pair of jeans.

　　 Cut out jeans. raw material Wages, factory rent, machinery losses, taxes and fees, how much more can we get in 4.3 euros?

We can't just stand up and criticize the factory owner's black heart without any pain. Is it true that the retailers in Europe and the United States believe that 4.3 Euros can buy a pair of jeans to wash the old water without toxic chemicals?

I was not so naive when I was ten years old. I knew that selling 10 Fen of a candy would make the mouth and mouth red, and the sugar was bitter.

The only way to pay for the desire to reduce costs is quality. If you want to buy a pair of jeans with 9.9 euros, don't expect it to be a boutique. It's not garbage, it's harmful.

In fact, factory owners of small factories also want to raise money to raise workers' wages, improve their working environment and buy sewage treatment facilities. But they found that once they did this, they would surely increase the cost of a single pair of jeans, and no matter how many justifiable reasons you have, the order merchant will quickly transfer the order to other less environmentally friendly and humane factories, and their reason is very high. They never violate China's laws and regulations.

　　 The status quo of China's processing industry is that we may earn only 1% of the processing cost of a product, but we have left 100% of the pollution on our land.

The child passed through the effluent from a dyeing and finishing plant, and he had no idea that the sewage he had run would have potential harm to human health.

They want a pair of jeans with a cost of 4.3 euro, and how the jeans come from, they do not want to know and do not want to manage. In the first second, it was said that the production environment was a German manufacturer that they could not tolerate. They heard the reporter ask if they could pay more money, improve the factory equipment and earn more money for the workers the other day. He said that the price of the trousers was even one thousand times that of the trousers, which was also made in such a factory, and he didn't think he would give more money. The factory owner would give more money to the workers.

　 4, what he said may be true, not that Levi's, which sells 100 euro, is no problem.

The Greenpeace organization, an international environmental group based in Holland, released a survey in 2012. The group purchased 141 samples of clothing in 29 countries and regions around the world. The results showed that 89 of these samples were detected NPE, accounting for 2/3 of the total number of samples, and almost all brands.

In addition to containing NPE and o-benzoic acid two, ZARA and Levi's two of the two international brands have been tested with carcinogenic substances, "aromatic amines". Of the 31 samples with offset patterns, 4 samples were detected with high concentration of environmental hormone o-benzoic acid two.

NPE is widely used in printing and dyeing and washing processes in textile production. When discharged into the environment, it will quickly break down into a stronger environmental hormone nonylphenol. Nonylphenol has strong toxicity to aquatic organisms, which can interfere with endocrine system and affect reproductive system. At the same time, it is durable and difficult to degrade, and can be accumulated through the food chain.

O-benzoic acid two can enter the human body through hand to mouth contact. It has reproductive toxicity, which can lead to reduced sperm count and female infertility. The threat to children and pregnant women is particularly important.

In addition, many kinds of potentially hazardous industrial chemicals have been detected in most samples. According to product labels, the tested garments are produced in 18 countries. Of these, 34 originate in China, and 70% of them are found to contain harmful substances.

However, as China's manpower costs increase year by year, many ordering companies have given their orders to the more backward third world countries, and even plan to set up new factories in Africa. Maybe only to produce one in Africa. Jeans When the cost is no less than 100 euro, the problem can be fundamentally solved.

"We don't know, we just pretend we don't know." Probably all people, including consumers, designers, distributors, middlemen and clients, are all accomplices.

Each of us is silent for our own selfish interests. The price is to pay the balance of the ecological environment that we rely on and the health and life of countless cheap labor force. All this is just to get a pair of jeans that we will lose in less than two years. After watching this documentary, we will look at ourselves. Jeans I feel that my legs are covered with dust and blood from my lungs.

Who is the murderer and who is the conspiracy in the whole tragedy? Who will pay for it now and in the future? Not just jeans, but a similar tragedy behind every moving commodity.

Perhaps we are numb, and have long been accustomed to the haze of the sky, need to filter to boil the tap water, the door is exacting oddball, but there is no living thing of the river, only tomorrow H&M will be listed what new products can stimulate our little interest!

Is it really just 99 yuan that we pay for a pair of jeans?