Armani 19 luxury brands in the Chinese enterprises accused of pollution

Pollution misdeeds of environmental organizations disclosure transnational textile enterprises in China.

Armani 19 luxury brands disregard the question.

Armani is the world's top luxury brands, however its textile raw material suppliers in China, but was environmental organizations found that there are pollution problems to face the question of environmental organizations, Armani does not make any response. Ignore the question and Armani textile enterprises, there are 18 house.

Friends of Nature, Public Environmental Research Center, Dahl asked, Technology EUDAR and Nanjing Greenstone five environmental organizations held a news conference in Beijing on October 8, open the environmental performance of the 49 textile enterprises and their raw material suppliers in China .

According to reports, the 49 companies, 47 suppliers in China found to exist in varying degrees of environmental law issues environmental organizations face the question, 19 did not make any response. These 19 companies, there are many Armani super brand of Macy's, Calvin Klein, Carrefour, Disney, and one of the department stores of the world.

Environmental organizations that multinational textile company was ignoring the environmental laws and regulations in China, one of the reasons is the lax enforcement.

19 enterprises have ignored the questions raised by environmental organizations

Of the five environmental organizations began in April 2012 with 49 Chinese and foreign clothing brand dialogue, asking whether they understand the environmental performance of the supply chain including suppliers, including dyeing and finishing (dyeing, finishing) Since then, 30 companies communication with environmental organizations.

In order to understand the environmental management of the various brands of dyeing and finishing suppliers, September 25, the environmental organization again sent a letter to 49 textile brand enterprises, they described the material supplier environmental management issues.

'As of October 7, 2012, 17 enterprises of this reply. Among them, the H & M NIKE Esquel, Wal-Mart, Levi's, Adidas, Burberry, Gap and other 17 brands overall performance positive, the Lafuma, the Target, music purchased Zara, Uniqlo, Puma 10 performance in general. 'said Ma Jun, director of the Public Environmental Research Center, 22 performance negatively, and 19 of them did not make any response, and 3 only made perfunctory respond to.

According to the environmental organization said, 19 not respond to the enterprise, including Disney, Polo Ralph Lauren, 361 degrees, Kappa, Anta, Macy's, Armani, Calvin Klein, Carrefour and other businesses and brands.

Environmental organizations believe that the management of these suppliers lack an objective to promote polluting enterprises to reduce the environmental costs to win orders, the final damage to China's environment and the health of the community people.

Marks & Spencer suppliers illegal

Marks and Spencer the largest transnational retail groups in the UK, was founded over a hundred years of history has been, Marks & Spencer from the development of a small shop in the past 128 years, more than one channel retailing of international brands in the world, 40 countries and regions opened a total of 1,100 stores, has more than 81,000 employees.

However, environmental groups found in the survey, its material suppliers in China, there are serious environmental law issues.

Environmental organizations revealed Paojiang Industrial Zone, Shaoxing City, Zhejiang Province, Zhe Jiang Qingmao Textile Printing and Dyeing Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as Zhejiang Jiang Qingmao) is an important supplier of Marks & Spencer. Has been put into operation in October 2003, Zhe Jiang Qingmao gas treatment of wastewater pond frequent complaints by local residents on March .2010, due the Zhe Jiang Qingmao caused by misuse cesspool spawn a large number of deaths, plus on the exhaust collection of sewage treatment station incineration device is still under construction, causing a stench a large number of gas leaks, serious impact to the month of Tangtou villagers, Shaoxing City, EPA issued a << shall order rectification notice >> Zhe Jiang Qingmao must be restored to the normal operation of wastewater treatment facilities in the March 20, while strengthening wastewater pool exhaust gas collection and treatment work to ensure that the emission standard until May 2010, corporate cesspool waste gas collection device yet built, exhaust pollution incidents still occur, serious pollution of the environment, resulting in several mass petition.

In addition, the the Zhe Jiang Hangmin shares (6.69,0.26,4.04%) Co., Ltd., Deco Textile (Suzhou) Co., Ltd., Huizhou new Armco Knitting Garment Co., Ltd., the Jiang Su Weijun Textile Dyeing and Finishing Co., Ltd., Wuxi technology established dyeing more than 10 companies and other companies are suspected of Marks & Spencer suppliers, and these companies are environmental organizations to detect presence of environmental law issues.

The face of environmental organizations questioned, Marks & Spencer has repeatedly evaded and perfunctory. 'Marks & Spencer side with the so-called 'zero waste' and 'carbon neutral' concept to decorate their own performance, the side to let the pollution in the production process of the supply chain billowing emissions, causing damage to the environment and the community. 'said environmental organizations.

Urged multinational companies to shoulder social responsibility

Five environmental organizations said that based on their investigation, based textile printing and dyeing, finishing raw materials processing sectors, China still holds the most important position in the world. Expected for a long time, China will continue the production of textile materials processing the factory of the world. environmental organizations, haphazard development of the industry of textile materials, water and energy consumption growth will lead to increased pollution emissions.

Lax enforcement, weak environmental regulatory litigation difficult environment, coupled with the low price of water and other resources, dyeing and finishing enterprises generally lack of emission reduction power, wastewater emission of a large number of dyeing and finishing business seriously, and even harder to achieve a stable environment for law-abiding. 'Ma said.

Environmental organizations said, China is facing a serious water and air pollution, with the textile industry in the new industrial division of labor, a large number of jobs transferred out with the garment making, and pollution associated with dyeing and link to stay in China, is bound to bring to the Chinese environment greater impact.

In this regard, environmental organizations suggested that the Chinese government needs to strengthen the regulatory need to strengthen the supervision of Chinese society, while the bulk purchase of international and domestic brands also have the responsibility to avoid its outsourcing production to strengthen the environmental management of the supplier, to dyeing enterprises China's environmental and community damage.