Toxic dumping by clothing suppliers
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April 11, 2012, Wednesday
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Chinese environmental campaigners have accused 46 Chinese and multinational clothing brands and retailers of purchasing from suppliers who illegally discharge polluted water in China.
Multinational companies Zara, adidas, Nike, Calvin Klein, Armani, Wal-Mart and Carrefour, and China's 361 Degrees, Anta and Youngor Group, were among the companies named, said a report released on Monday by five Chinese non-governmental organizations, including Friends of Nature and the Institute of Public and Environmental Affairs.
Forty-six out of 48 surveyed clothing brands and retailers were found to have bought products from Chinese textile enterprises that had records of illegal discharge.
The report said that more than 6,000 environmental violations by Chinese textile enterprises had been recorded in the China Water Pollution Map, a database launched by the IPEA in 2006.
Those violations included building secret discharge channels, discharging untreated sewage and falsely operating sewage-disposal facilities, the report said.
It said letters have been sent asking these companies to investigate their supply chains and make greener purchases so as to push suppliers to correct their illegal actions. Only 16 companies have replied.
Pollution control over the country's textile industry has been difficult, as dyeing companies, responsible for 80 percent of the sector's pollution, are mostly medium and small-sized enterprises.
Data from a 2010 report on China's environment released by the environmental protection authority showed that the textile industry discharged 2.46 billion tons of waste water in 2010, placing it third among 39 industries.
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