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According to a Greenpeace report, a Chinese company that supplies material to well-known brands such as Nike, Adidas, Puma and others, is spilling chemicals and other toxic materials to the public sewer network. The environmental organization asks these companies to demand the immediate cessation of these activities against the environment and, if not complied with, they cease their business with said company.
The Chinese brand, named Li Ning, is active in the textile industry and is dumping dangerous and persistent chemicals into the Yangtze River and the Pearl River Delta. Among the substances found in the analysis carried out by Greenpeace are alkylphenols (including nonylphenol), in the wastewater of the two factories, and perfluorinated chemicals (PFC), in the wastewater of the Youngor textile complex. Keep reading this Green Ecology article if you want to know more about pollution from the textile industry.
Toxic substances
The alkylphenols and PFCs found in the samples are of serious concern. These chemicals are known hormone disruptors and can be dangerous, even at very low levels. Both groups of chemicals are man-made substances that persist in the environment and can have potentially devastating effects as they accumulate up the food chain. These chemicals can affect human health, especially to the reproduction. In addition, they impair the development of the child, damage the liver, alter the immune and hormonal systems and decrease the number of sperm.
According to Greenpeace, these facilities and the chemicals they discharge they are just the tip of the icebergare just a sample of the class of toxic chemicals that are produced by the textile industry around the world and that, in many cases, end up in nearby rivers and canals. China has the most powerful textile industry in the world, with some 50,000 treatment plants for fabrics, fabrics that are sold to multinationals that sell clothes all over the world. In China, these chemicals are legal. But not in the European Union and other developed countries. No problem. Factories are moved to contaminate other continents and matter settled.
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