“Of all the factories we have been to over the past few years, we have never before seen such large-scale pollution. The samples of wastewater taken on site have proven to be some of the most toxic testing results we have seen,” says Yifang Li, Senior Toxics Campaigner at Greenpeace East Asia.
The pollution is coming from textile manufacturing plants in China that are part of the supply chain for Levi’s, GAP and Calvin Klein, among many others in the clothing industry.
Greenpeace International’s investigation reveals dumping of industrial waste water with a wide range of hazardous substances in two of China’s most important textile manufacturing zones.
Their report “Toxic Threads: Putting Pollution on Parade,” details how facilities are exploiting complex wastewater systems to hide scrutiny of their manufacturing processes.
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