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H&M Responds To Poison Clothing &Nbsp; Promises To Eliminate Toxic Substances Before 2020.

2011/9/23 10:55:00 37

In 4-5 months of this year, Greenpeace purchased 15 countries in 18 countries, including China, the United Kingdom and Argentina.

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78 samples of the brand, of which 52 samples were detected residual toxic and harmful substances.

It includes Adidas, NIKE, H&M, CK, Puma, Lining and other world-renowned sportswear enterprises.

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The commitment of 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 the survey report in July this year.

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Poison: the global water pollution survey of clothing brands.

The report pointed out that Adidas, Nike, Lining and other international and domestic well-known clothing brands in China's two suppliers of industrial waste water, containing endocrine disrupting endocrine system and affect the reproductive system of environmental hormones.

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.

Shortly after that, H&M promised the public that a specific action plan would be announced within 8 weeks, and that the goal of zero emissions of toxic and hazardous substances would be achieved 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.