Armani And Other 19 Luxury Brands Ignore Questions.

Armani is the world's top.

Brand, however, its suppliers of textile materials in China were found to be polluted by environmental protection organizations.

In response to questions from environmental groups, Armani did not respond.

Like Armani, there are 18 textile companies that ignore questions.

Five environmental groups, including friends of nature, public environment research center, Dahl asked, circle friends technology and Nanjing green stone, held a press conference in Beijing on October 8th. They announced the environmental performance of 49 textile enterprises and their raw materials suppliers in China.

It has been revealed that 47 of the 49 enterprises in China have been found to have varying degrees of environmental violations by environmental protection organizations.

In response to the inquiry, 19 did not respond.

Among these 19 companies, there are many Armani, Messi stores, Calvin Klein, Carrefour, Disney and other super brands and world class department stores.

Environmental organizations believe that one of the reasons why multinational textile enterprises ignore China's environmental laws and regulations is lax enforcement.

19 enterprises ignore environmental protection organizations' questions

In April 2012, the above five environmental organizations began a dialogue with 49 Chinese and foreign clothing brands, asking if they understood the environmental performance of the supply chain, including dyeing and finishing (printing and dyeing, finishing) suppliers.

Since then, 30 enterprises have communicated with environmental protection organizations.

In order to understand each brand's environmental management of dyeing and finishing suppliers, in September 25th, the environmental protection organization once again sent a letter to 49 home textile brand enterprises, hoping that they could explain the environmental management problems of materials suppliers.

"As of October 7, 2012, 17 enterprises responded to this.

Among them, H&M, NIKE, Yida, WAL-MART, Levi's, Adidas, Burberry, Gap and other 17 brands overall performance is positive; Lafuma, Target, Tesco, Zara, UNIQLO, Puma and other 10 general performance.

Ma Jun, director of the public environment research center, said 22 of them were negative, 19 of them did not make any response, and 3 only made a perfunctory response.

According to environmental protection organizations, 19 enterprises that do not respond include Disney, Polo Ralph Lauren, 31st degree, Kappa, Anta, Messi general merchandise, Armani, Calvin Klein, Carrefour and other businesses and brands.

Environmental protection organizations believe that the lack of management of these suppliers objectively promotes pollution enterprises to reduce environmental costs to win orders, and ultimately damage the health of China's environment and community people.

Martha department store is seriously illegal.

Martha's department store is the largest multinational business retail group in the UK. Since its establishment, it has more than 100 years of history. In the past 128 years, Martha department store has developed from a small shop into a multi-channel retail brand, and has opened 1100 branches in 40 countries and regions, with over 81000 employees.

However, Chinese environmental protection organizations found that there are serious environmental violations in China's material suppliers.

Environmental protection organization revealed that Zhejiang is located in Shaoxing, Zhejiang province.

Printing and dyeing Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as Zhejiang Qing Mao) is an important supplier of Martha department store.

Since its commissioning in October 2003, the problem of waste water treatment of waste water in Zhejiang has been repeatedly complained by local residents.

In March 2010, a large number of bacteria were killed in the sewage pond due to the misoperation of Zhejiang, and the waste gas collection and incineration plant at the sewage treatment station was still under construction, resulting in the massive leakage of malodorous gases and seriously affecting the villagers in Tong Tou.

In the same month, the Shaoxing Environmental Protection Bureau issued the "Notice of rectification and rectification", which required Zhejiang to resume the normal operation of the waste water treatment facilities before March 20th. At the same time, the collection and treatment of waste water from the waste water tanks should be strengthened to ensure the discharge of the waste gas to meet the standards.

However, up to May 2010, the waste collection device of the sewage sump was not built yet, and the pollution incidents still occurred frequently, which seriously polluted the environment and caused many petitions to the masses.

In addition, Zhejiang Airlines Limited by Share Ltd, Deco (Suzhou) Textile Co., Ltd., Huizhou new Huitong knitting garments Co., Ltd., Jiangsu Wei Chun textile dyeing and finishing Co., Ltd., Wuxi technology printing and dyeing Co., Ltd. and so on, more than 10 enterprises are all suspected suppliers of Martha department store, and these enterprises are found by environmental protection organizations to have environmental violations.

Faced with the challenge of environmental groups, Martha stores repeatedly avoided and perfunctory.

"Martha stores use their concepts of" zero waste "and" carbon neutralization "to decorate their performance, while allowing pollution emissions from the production process of the supply chain to cause damage to the environment and communities.

Environmental groups said.

Appeals to multinational corporations to shoulder social responsibilities

According to their investigation, the five environmental protection organizations still occupy the most important position in the world in textile and raw materials processing.

China is still expected to be the world's factory for textile materials processing and production for a long time.

Environmental organizations believe that the disorderly development of the textile industry will lead to the growth of water and energy consumption and increase of pollutant emissions.

"Law enforcement is lax, environmental supervision is weak, environmental litigation is difficult, and the price of water and other resources is low, which results in the lack of emission reduction power for dyeing and finishing enterprises. A large number of dyeing and finishing enterprises have serious waste water and exhaust emissions, and even difficult to achieve a stable environmental compliance."

Ma Jun said.

Environmental protection organization said that China is currently facing serious water pollution and air pollution. With the new division of labor in the textile industry, a large number of jobs are pferred out of garment processing, while pollution is accompanied by dyeing and finishing in China, which is bound to have a greater impact on China's environment.

In response, the environmental protection organization suggested that the Chinese government need to strengthen supervision and supervision, and that Chinese society needs to strengthen supervision. At the same time, the large number of products purchased from these dyeing and finishing enterprises is well-known internationally and domestically.

It is also necessary to strengthen environmental management of suppliers so as to avoid damage to China's environment and communities by outsourcing production.