
MCL News & Media has written and published what is widely recognised as THE essential to the Greenpeace Detox campaign and what it means for your business.
This unique 128 page report has become influential and has helped many leading brands, retailers and textile suppliers grapple with the complex issues surrounding the removal of potentially hazardous textile chemicals from their supply chains.
Contents include:
Executive Summary
Introduction
What is the Detox?
The 11 chemicals of concern. Issues, alternatives.
Heroes or Zero's? What steps the brands are taking?
Signing up to failure? Realities and complexities.
Sign here instead? Other environmental initiatives.
Testing times. The problems of testing/measuring.
Transparency? Where do you stop? How to police?
The legislative landscape.
Can voluntary standards help?
Conclusions/recommendations.
Glossary References/index
The report also looks at how the brands have reacted so far? What are the chemicals of concern and can they be safely replaced? Will the textile industry realistically be able to meet the Greenpeace deadline to phase out of the use (intentional or otherwise) of these substances by 2020? And the report also proposes recommendations for the industry going forward.
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