Textile brands accused of pollution
December 20, 2012 Category Environment, Pollution
Some of the most well-known textile brands been accused of hiding their toxic trails by using government-run wastewater treatment plants. Greenpeace International said a recent investigation found a wide range of hazardous substances in the effluent of two communal treatment plants in industrial zones in Zhejiang province. The treatment plants in Shaoxing and Xiaoshan, serving the Binhai, Linjiang and Jiangdong industrial zones, dumped a wide range of hazardous substances into the Qiantang river, it said. Zara, Metersbonwe, Levi’s, Calvin Klein, Esprit, Marks & Spencer, Gap and JC Penny source their products from plants in the zones. The two treatment plants process 2.1 million tons of waste water per day. The results of the investigation were published in a report entitled “Toxic Threads: Putting Pollution on Parade,” which claims that facilities were exploiting complex wastewater systems to hide scrutiny of their manufacturing processes. The use of communal treatment plants makes it extremely hard to trace the discharge of hazardous chemicals to specific facilities, Greenpeace said. Hu Jian, Deputy Director of the Shaoxing Environmental Protection Bureau, however, insisted that the processed wastewater met national standards.
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