environmentally friendly chemicals for textile industry?

SUSTAINABILITY OF TEXTILE INDUSTRY
Textile industry neglected environmental protection

From scapegoat to golden boys: Nike uses environmentally friendly production. Photo: rtr
The textile industry remains an ecological sinner industry. The companies pay starvation wages, overtime and expect to use toxic chemicals. Rethinking None. A study of all the groups identified Nike, Adidas and Puma as a pioneer.

Textile companies have a reputation for being heavy polluters teachable. Your suppliers are accused for years of massive labor law violations. With its campaign "detox our future" (detoxifies our future), the environmental organization Greenpeace in 2011 brought the issue of toxic chemicals in the textile production in the focus and sporting goods Adidas, Puma and Nike, are caused to abjure toxic substances by 2020. The presence in terms of environmental and social responsibility remains largely opaque industry, according to a new study for sustainability rating.

Done In fact she has specialized rating agency Oekom Munich. 38 sporting goods and other publicly traded textile companies have been put under the microscope. At the end of a disastrous average grade of D was on one of A + to D-reaching scale.


Only five companies of Studies Lisa has houses identified as a relative flagship company, which started on green Pfanden to convert. "Even with the best industry falls from the balance sheet of achievements ambivalent," says houses, however, clear.

"Top marks" in spite of toxic chemicals

Winner with C + rating is the world's largest sporting goods Nike, Adidas, followed by the same note. This is also true for Puma fifth. In other sectors to achieve the best B-notes. This shows that in the textile industry still lies in wickedness.

Were unbroken on the agenda below subsistence wages, overtime extreme, especially toxic chemicals in China's textile factories and extremely high water consumption, criticized Oekom.

Were mainly Nike, Adidas and Puma but believable at rethinking, houses praises cautiously. Sun today Puma controlling not only direct suppliers, but also those which are the second or third link in the chain up to five-level production of green minimum standards. The Franks have taken care of with an environmental profit and loss account for unprecedented transparency in the industry.

Adidas scores among other things, with the aim of increasing the share of cotton in 2015 to 40 percent by 2018 and to 100 percent. The greatest progress was made last Nike recognizes Oekom.

Thus perceive the U.S. group that going back causes extreme overtime with suppliers on their own purchasing practices. Nike now streamlines its product line to simplify the manufacturing and suppliers to make them more predictable. Even when water management in production is a leader Nike says houses.

Snake Eyes

Pioneering: Textile patterns are projected on large canvases in the form of fashion dolls. The will to greening's weak point but still.
As a real pioneer in the industry calls them, however, the U.S. outdoor brand Patagonia, which was not evaluated because it is not listed. The Californians were not as competitors to build recycling. Among other things, the company offers in collaboration with eBay an Internet platform for used Patagonia products.

Ambivalent sees the use of tiny houses nanoparticles to make stain-resistant textiles or hold odors. Then one must wash one hand less. On the other hand, the effects of nanoparticles on human health and the environment are still largely unexplored.

Greenpeace also remains critical. "That's enough for us," the chemistry expert at the organization says on the steps of Adidas, Puma and Nike, to banish toxic chemicals from the production. The trio play on time and was still dealing with an inventory. For many critical chemicals there ready to use alternatives.

On the other hand, some textile companies such as the French luxury group LVMH Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton, which can be found at Oekom with D-grades to the lowest ranks, and hardly move towards sustainability. "To reach the goal of sustainable textile industry closer, many companies would have to rethink their business model principle," says houses. Widespread willingness to be not.