{"id":8999,"date":"2015-05-15T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-05-15T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www-prod.greenpeace.org\/usa\/hazardous-chemicals-fashion\/"},"modified":"2024-11-21T03:05:44","modified_gmt":"2024-11-21T03:05:44","slug":"hazardous-chemicals-fashion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/usa\/hazardous-chemicals-fashion\/","title":{"rendered":"Greenpeace Exposes Hazardous Chemicals in Popular Fashion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"p4descriptive_paragraph\">Beijing, Nov. 20th, 2012 \u2013 Popular fashion brands are selling clothing contaminated with hazardous chemicals that break down to form hormone-disrupting or even cancer-causing chemicals when released into the environment, according to a report released today by Greenpeace.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Beijing, Nov. 20th, 2012 \u2013 Popular fashion brands are selling clothing contaminated with hazardous chemicals that break down to form hormone-disrupting or even cancer-causing chemicals when released into the environment, according to a report released today by Greenpeace.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;\">\u201c<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 15px; font-family: Calibri; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;\">We found that<\/span> <span style=\"font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;\">20 of the world\u2019s favorite brands are making and selling clothes containing hazardous chemicals which contribute to toxic water pollution where the clothes are made and washed\u201d said Greenpeace Toxics Campaigner John Deans. \u201cThe use of these toxic chemicals is an industry wide problem that is turning us all into fashion victims.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;\">The new investigatory report, \u201cToxic Threads \u2013 The Big Fashion Stitch-Up,\u201d reveals the results of tests done on 141 clothing items and exposes the links between textile manufacturing facilities using hazardous chemicals and the presence of chemicals in final products.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;\">The Greenpeace investigation found hazardous chemicals in clothes from all 20 of the leading fashion brands that were examined <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 15px; font-family: Calibri; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;\">[1]<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;\">.\u00a0 Zara, the leading brand of worlds largest fashion retailer<\/span>, <span style=\"font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;\"> is alone in the study for having clothes that contain chemicals from certain dyes which can break down into cancer-causing amines <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 15px; font-family: Calibri; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;\">[2]<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;\">One of the key findings is that all tested brands had at least several items containing NPEs, which break down into hormone disrupting chemicals, with the highest concentrations \u2013 above 1,000 ppm \u2013 in clothing items from Zara, Metersbonwe, Levi\u2019s, C&amp;A, Mango, Calvin Klein, Jack &amp; Jones and Marks &amp; Spencer (M&amp;S). Other chemicals identified included high levels of toxic phthalates in four of the products, and traces of a cancer-causing amine from the use of certain azo dyes <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 15px; font-family: Calibri; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;\">[3]<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;\"> in two products from Zara. The presence of many other types of potentially hazardous industrial chemicals were found in many of the items tested. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;\">\u201cAs the world\u2019s largest fashion retailer Zara can lead the industry in change by \u00a0taking urgent, ambitious and transparent action to Detox their clothes and supply chains,\u201d Deans said. \u201cH&amp;M and Marks &amp; Spencer have committed to zero discharge of toxic chemicals by 2020. There is no reason Zara can\u2019t do the same.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;\">The items tested were manufactured mainly in the Global South, and included jeans, trousers, t-shirts, dresses and underwear designed for men, women and children and made from both artificial and natural fibers. Hazardous chemicals are incorporated deliberately within the materials or left as unwanted residues remaining from their use during the manufacturing process. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;\">\u201cThe textile industry continues to treat public waterways as little more than their private sewers. But our fashion doesn\u2019t have to cost the earth: Our clothes don\u2019t have to be manufactured with hazardous chemicals,\u201d said Yifang Li, Detox campaigner at Greenpeace East Asia.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;\">Greenpeace demands fashion brands commit to zero discharge of all hazardous chemicals by 2020 \u2013 as seven brands including H&amp;M and Marks &amp; Spencer have already done \u2013 and require their suppliers to disclose all releases of toxic chemicals from their facilities to communities at the site of water pollution.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;\">For media inquiries:<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;\">Myriam Fallon, Media Officer, Greenpeace: 708.546.9001, <\/span><a href=\"mailto:mfallon@greenpeace.org\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; color: #1155cc; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;\">mfallon@greenpeace.org<\/span><\/a><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;\">Tristan Tremschnig, Media Relations Specialist, Greenpeace (based in Beijing): <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;\">+31 6 43 78 7393 (int\u2019l) \/ +86 13 718 448 663 (China), <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 15px; font-family: Calibri; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;\">tristan.tremschnig@greenpeace.org<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;\">The report<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;\"> and factsheets can be downloaded at:<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/international\/big-fashion-stitch-up\"> <span style=\"font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; color: #1155cc; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;\">www.greenpeace.org\/international\/big-fashion-stitch-up<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;\">Photos<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;\"> and graphics can be accessed at: <\/span><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/photo.greenpeace.org\/C.aspx?VP3=ViewBox_VPage&amp;ALID=27MZIFVVONQT&amp;CT=Album\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; color: #1155cc; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; 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font-family: Calibri; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;\">[1]<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12px; font-family: Calibri; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;\"> The clothes were sold by the leading fashion companies Benetton, Jack &amp; Jones, Only, Vero Moda, Bla\u017eek, C&amp;A, Diesel, Esprit, Gap, Armani, H&amp;M, Zara, Levi\u2019s, Victoria\u2019s Secret, Mango, Marks &amp; Spencer, Metersbonwe, Calvin Klein, Tommy Hilfiger, and Vancl.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 15px; font-family: Calibri; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;\">[2]<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12px; font-family: Calibri; color: #000000; 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Some amines (that come from the breakdown of certain dyes) are carcinogenic. Phthalates were found in all 31 items that were tested: high levels in 4, and traces in the other 27. Nonylphenol ethoxylates (NPEs) were identified across all brands. Some phthalates, and chemicals released when nonylphenol ethoxylates (NPEs) break down (in water treatment plants or in rivers), are hormone-disrupting chemicals. Some phthalates are toxic to the reproductive system.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 15px; font-family: Calibri; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;\">[3]<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12px; font-family: Calibri; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;\"> The release of amines were detected in two of the articles, above the detection limit of 5 ppm; both products were manufactured in Pakistan for Zara and sold in either Lebanon or Hungary.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWe found that 20 of the world\u2019s favorite brands are making and selling clothes containing hazardous chemicals which contribute to toxic water pollution where the clothes are made and washed\u201d&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":77,"featured_media":10369,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"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":[219],"tags":[94,188],"p4-page-type":[33],"class_list":["post-8999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-toxics-campaign","tag-fast-fashion","tag-toxics","p4-page-type-press-release"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v23.9 (Yoast SEO v23.9) - 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