Rivers

Dirty Laundry 2: Hung Out to Dry

Unravelling the toxic trail from pipes to products

Publication - August 23, 2011

Research commissioned by Greenpeace International has revealed that clothing and certain fabric-based shoes sold internationally by major clothing brands are manufactured using nonylphenol ethoxylates (NPEs). NPEs -- which are used as surfactants in textile production -- subsequently break down to form toxic nonylphenol (NP). Nonylphenol is a persistent chemical with hormone-disrupting properties that builds up in the food chain, and is hazardous even at very low levels.
 
  
The investigation involved the analysis of 78 articles of sports and recreational clothing and shoes bearing the logos of 15 leading clothing brands.
Greenpeace is calling on the brands and suppliers identified in this investigation, and our previous Dirty Laundry report, to become champions for a toxic-free future – by eliminating all releases of hazardous chemicals from their supply chains and their products.  
Governments also have a crucial role to play. To this end, Greenpeace is calling on governments to work towards the elimination of all releases of hazardous chemicals by adopting a political commitment to 'zero discharge' of all hazardous chemicals within one generation, based on the precautionary principle and a preventative approach to chemicals management.
   
   
Head to greenpeace.org.uk/toxics to find out more about our toxics campaigns.
  
File:  application/pdf iconDirtyLaundryReport2HungOutToDry.pdf
Author:  Greenpeace International
Year Published:  23 August, 2011 (All day)
Article tagged as: adidas, china, clothing, Detox, Dirty Laundry, gender bending chemicals, industry, nike, pollution, Puma, reports, Rivers, textiles, toxic, water

Detox Challenge Striptease

Author Credit:  Athit Perawongmetha / Greenpeace
Copyright:  All rights reserved
Date Taken:  27 July, 2011
Article tagged as: activists, adidas, Detox Challenge, nike, Rivers, water pollution

Puma overtakes Adidas and Nike in race to drop toxic pollution

For immediate release, 26th July 2011

29 July, 2011

Puma, the world’s third largest sportswear brand, has responded to a Greenpeace challenge to ‘detox’, by publicly committing to the elimination of all releases of hazardous chemicals from its entire product lifecycle, and across its global supply chain by 2020 (1), putting it firmly ahead of its competitors Nike and Adidas in the race for a toxic-free future.

Puma’s move comes less than two weeks after Greenpeace launched its 'Dirty Laundry' report, which identifies commercial links between major clothing brands (2), including Nike, Adidas and Puma, and suppliers responsible for releasing hazardous and hormone-disrupting chemicals into Chinese rivers (3).

Article tagged as: adidas, china, Detox, nike, pollution, Puma, Rivers, toxics, water

Puma leaps ahead of Nike and Adidas in Detox Challenge

Posted by Gemma Freeman - 27 July 2011 at 11:38am - 3 Comments
Activists in Bangkok streaked for an international action of over 600 people in
All rights reserved. Credit: © Athit Perawongmetha / Greenpeace
Activists in Bangkok streaked for an international action of over 600 people in 29 cities in 10 countries

By Eoin from our International office:  Hats off to Puma, the third largest sportswear company in the world, for publicly committing today to eliminate all releases of hazardous chemicals from its entire product lifecycle and across its whole supply chain by 2020.

Article tagged as: adidas, china, Detox, nike, pollution, Puma, Rivers, successes, water

From our China team: how to lose a foot on fieldwork

Posted by louise - 14 July 2011 at 10:52am - 7 Comments
Zhong Yu during the clean-up of the Dalian oil spill
All rights reserved. Credit: © Lu Guang / Greenpeace
Zhong Yu during the clean-up of the Dalian oil spill

Zhong Yu has worked for Greenpeace in China for over seven years and has witnessed some of the most devastating environmental disasters there from rapid glacier retreat on the Himalayas, the 2008 Sichuan earthquake to last summer’s devastating Dalian oil spill. Here, she writes about the undercover research behind our latest report, which exposes the terrible impact that China’s growing textile industry is having on the country’s rivers.

Article tagged as: actions, adidas, alkylphenols, china, Detox, Fieldwork, nike, PFOA, pollution, reports, Rivers, Testing

GP online