361 Degrees, Anta And Other Brand Suppliers Are Accused Of Polluting The Environment

On October 8, five environmental protection organizations, namely Friends of Nature, Public Environmental Research Center, Darwen, Huanyou Technology and Nanjing Greenstone, jointly released a research report in Beijing, pointing out that there are 22 large enterprises, including 361DU, Youngor, Anta, Giordano, Marks&Spencer, Disney, J.C.Penny, Polo Ralph Lauren and Tommy Hilfiger clothing The brand has major defects in the environmental management of its supply chain in China, and calls on Chinese and foreign consumers to use their own expressions to promote the brand to assume environmental responsibility.

　　 22 brand suppliers are accused of polluting the environment and responding negatively

It is understood that these five environmental protection organizations started a dialogue with 49 Chinese and foreign clothing brands in April this year, asking whether they understood the environmental performance of the supply chain, including dyeing and finishing suppliers. Since then, a group of brands have actively followed up and actively identified the pollution records on the supply chain through their regular retrieval mechanism, More than 200 textile and leather suppliers were encouraged to make public statements on violations and subsequent rectification. However, there were still 22 companies with negative performance, 19 of which did not respond, while 3 companies only gave perfunctory responses. It includes 361 °, Youngor, Anta, Giordano and other domestic clothing brands, as well as M&S, Disney, J.C.Penny, Polo Ralph Lauren, Tommy Hilfiger and other international clothing brands.

The report pointed out that several suppliers of Marks&Spencer, the largest multinational retail group in the UK, had serious environmental violations, and were frequently complained by local residents, and responded negatively to specific questions raised by Chinese environmental protection organizations about their printing, dyeing and finishing suppliers' violations. Including Zhejiang Qingmao Textile Printing and Dyeing Co., Ltd., Zhejiang Qingfeng Textile Printing and Dyeing Co., Ltd., Zhejiang Hangmin Co., Ltd. Printing and Dyeing Branch, etc

On June 13, 2010, Shaoxing Environmental Protection Bureau received a complaint from a villager. The complaint pointed out that "the toxic gas and waste water discharged by Zhejiang Qingmao Textile Printing and Dyeing Co., Ltd. have seriously affected the quality of life of the villagers, and at night the sky is covered with toxic gas, which is hazy." In the Shaoxing Forum, there were also complaints against Qingmao Textile Printing and Dyeing Co., Ltd. The netizen "Master Shaoxing" posted in June 2011 that "the sewage treatment pool of Zhejiang Qingmao Textile Printing and Dyeing Co., Ltd. is often gassed at night, which stinks."

At the end of September this year, Wenzhou Green Eye, an environmental protection organization, conducted a field survey of Zhejiang Hangmin Co., Ltd., and also found that a particularly unpleasant smell could be smelled at the gate of Hangmin Printing and Dyeing Branch. The river water opposite the main gate has been seriously polluted. The river water is dark green and sour when approaching. The drainage ditch water at about 1000 meters in the southwest has turned dark green.

A variety of factors lead to clothing brand supplier Weak environmental management

Ma Jun, director of the Public Environment Research Center, said that most textile brands and large retailers have also formulated their own sustainable procurement policies. However, the supply chain environmental management of large brands still stays at the primary suppliers, that is, garment factories, while the environmental performance of the most polluting material suppliers is limited, and some even do not know who these suppliers are. This fatal blind spot of sustainable textile objectively provides a downward impetus for dyeing and finishing enterprises to lower environmental standards to win orders.

He also pointed out that there were many factors that led to the weak environmental management of clothing brands on dyeing and finishing suppliers. The pollution problem of material suppliers is highly technical, and it is difficult to identify it through simple list review; Some material suppliers are large in scale, but single brand procurement share is limited and influence is limited, so it is often difficult to effectively promote transformation. In environmental accounting, only water quantity is considered, but water quality is rarely considered, which makes it difficult to enter the performance assessment of pollution reduction.

Weak supervision leads to low illegal costs of suppliers, difficult environmental litigation leads to lack of responsibility awareness of suppliers, seriously low water price leads to long payback period of transformation investment, low public attention can not provide pressure and motivation, and these external factors also lead to the difficulty in extending the management of suppliers. (The first business opportunity, exclusive business information, instant message - Xiaomi editor of the supplier station of Global Footwear)

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