The Six Major Clothing Brands Release The Common Roadmap To Eliminate Toxic And Harmful Substances.

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"This is undoubtedly a positive step for these brands to fulfill their commitments," said Zhang Kai, director of the Greenpeace pollution prevention and control project. "However, in view of the urgency of the pollution problem, the most harmful and harmful substances should be intensified in a shorter time.

However, we regret that this common roadmap has not given a specific timetable.

In the common roadmap, these brands indicate that they will cooperate in fulfilling their "detoxification commitments" in the near future. The main actions include investigating and analyzing the use plan of chemicals in the entire supply chain, eliminating the most toxic and harmful substances in the pilot project, and green chemistry.

"At the same time, information disclosure is the guarantee of the credibility of the" detoxification "action and the basis for public supervision," Zhang Kai said. "Therefore, we expect these brands to formulate and publish the information schedule for pollutant use and emission as soon as possible.

Greenpeace released an investigation report in July this year, "the poison of fashion - the global clothing brand's China water pollution survey".

The report pointed out that Adidas, Nike, Lining and other international and domestic well-known clothing brands in China's two suppliers of industrial waste water, containing endocrine disrupting endocrine system and affect the reproductive system of environmental hormones.

In August this year, another report released by Greenpeace, "poison hidden in clothing," a survey of toxic and harmful substances in global brand clothing, pointed out that the products known as "environmental hormones" NPE[NPE in textile products are often used as surfactants in textile production and are rapidly decomposed into nonylphenol (NP) when discharged into the environment.

NP is a recognized environmental hormone, which simulates estrogen, has an effect on the sexual development of organisms, and interferes with the endocrine of organisms, and is toxic to reproductive system.

At the same time, NP can accumulate in the organism through the food chain. Therefore, research shows that even if the emission concentration is very low, it is also very harmful.

The EU promulgated the REACH regulations in 2005 to prohibit its use in textile production.

At the beginning of this year, the Chinese government added NPE and NP to the catalogue of toxic chemicals that China strictly restricted imports and exports.

However, China has not issued any corresponding regulations on its use and emissions in China.

Greenpeace discovered in 2010 that the wild fish in the Yangtze River Basin were enriched with environmental hormones including NP.

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Based on the findings and testing results of these two reports, Greenpeace requires these brands to immediately commit themselves to eliminate and eliminate toxic and harmful substances that are used and discharged in their supply chain and to disclose environmental information.

"The recent accession of Lining and C&A has undoubtedly injected great momentum into the pformation of the textile industry into a" non-toxic "direction," said Zhang Kai. "Especially Lining's commitment proves that Chinese brands and the entire textile industry to eliminate toxic and harmful substances are not all Arabian Nights.

Of course, we also look forward to and call on Lining to take practical measures as soon as possible in information disclosure.

Greenpeace said it will continue to closely monitor and supervise the follow-up actions of brands such as Lining, C&A, H&M, Adidas, Nike and Puma, together with global consumers, and urge other brands to make "non-toxic" commitments and carry out practical actions as soon as possible.

"The release of the common roadmap is just the beginning. The action of" Greenpeace "to" poison the Chinese river "will continue until the textile industry and other industries are making" non-toxic "changes.

Zhang Kai finally said.