{"id":7435,"date":"2011-08-23T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-08-23T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.p4.greenpeace.org\/post\/dirty-laundry-2-hung-out-to-dry\/"},"modified":"2019-11-06T09:50:02","modified_gmt":"2019-11-06T08:50:02","slug":"dirty-laundry-2-hung-out-to-dry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/international\/publication\/7435\/dirty-laundry-2-hung-out-to-dry\/","title":{"rendered":"Dirty Laundry 2: Hung Out to Dry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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 &#8212; which are used as surfactants in textile production &#8212; 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.<\/p>\n<p>The investigation involved the analysis of 78 articles of sports and recreational clothing and shoes bearing the logos of 15 leading clothing brands.<\/p>\n<p>Greenpeace is calling on the brands and suppliers identified in this investigation, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/international\/publication\/7168\/dirty-laundry\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">our previous Dirty Laundry report<\/a>, to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/archive-international\/en\/campaigns\/detox\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">become champions for a toxic-free future<\/a> \u2013 by eliminating all releases of hazardous chemicals from their supply chains and their products.<\/p>\n<p>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 <em>&#8216;zero discharge&#8217;<\/em> of all hazardous chemicals within one generation, based on the precautionary principle and a preventative approach to chemicals management.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-international-stateless\/2018\/01\/f84f320c-dirty-laundry-report-2.pdf\">Dirty Laundry 2: Hung Out to Dry [PDF]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 &#8212; which are used as surfactants in textile production &#8212; 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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":10368,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_planet4_optimize_post_is_variant":false,"_planet4_optimize_experiment_name":"","_planet4_optimize_variant_name":"","ep_exclude_from_search":false,"p4_og_title":"","p4_og_description":"","p4_og_image":"","p4_og_image_id":"","p4_seo_canonical_url":"","p4_campaign_name":"","p4_local_project":"","p4_basket_name":"","p4_department":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[70,73],"tags":[67],"p4-page-type":[62],"class_list":["post-7435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nature","category-social-and-economic-systems","tag-consumption","p4-page-type-publication"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7435"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7435\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26297,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7435\/revisions\/26297"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7435"},{"taxonomy":"p4-page-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/p4-page-type?post=7435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}