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H&M Promises To Eliminate Toxic Substances

2011/9/22 11:00:00 35

In September 21st, it was learned from Greenpeace that H&M, the world's second largest clothing retailer, issued a public statement: it promised to eliminate all toxic and harmful substances in its supply chain and products by 2020.

This is followed by the international environmental protection organization Greenpeace released in July, "fashion poison" - global clothing.

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After the China water pollution survey, fourth brands responded to the call of "innocuous future".

At the same time, Greenpeace urged other brands such as Lining to make substantive commitments as soon as possible, and jointly promote the entire textile industry and other industries to poison the Chinese river.

The promise of H&M, Adidas, Puma and Nike fully proves that it is feasible to completely eliminate toxic and harmful substances. "

Zhang Kai, director of Greenpeace pollution prevention and control project, said.

Greenpeace released an investigation report in July this year, "the poison of fashion - the global clothing brand's China water pollution survey".

The report points out that there are two famous international and domestic clothing brands in China, such as Adidas, Nike and Lining.

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The industrial wastewater discharged contains endocrine disrupting substances that interfere with endocrine and affect reproductive system.

And last month, another report released by Greenpeace, "poison hidden in clothing," a survey of toxic and harmful substances in global brand clothing, pointed out that the products of these internationally renowned brands contain "environmental hormone" NPE.

In order to put pressure on H&M and make it change as soon as possible, Greenpeace volunteers launched action on Wednesday in 12 countries, including China, France, Germany, Sweden, Finland and Turkey.

They paste the word "poison free future" and "poison the Chinese river" on the windows of H&M retail stores, and pass the demands to the H&M decision-makers through online online activities.

Not long after that,

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The public is committed to announce a specific action plan within 8 weeks and to achieve the goal of zero emissions of toxic and hazardous substances by 2020 based on the precautionary principle.

At the same time, H&M also proposed that every 6 months it would disclose all its subordinate suppliers' information on the use and discharge of toxic and harmful substances. The first data will be released by the end of 2012.