TEXTILES, crippling
Greenpeace International has found part of industrial wastewater that is discharged into the river Chitarum, West Java (Indonesia), a mixture of toxic and hazardous chemicals and caustic alkali.
The main culprits of pollution has become an international fashion brands, including Gap, Old Navy and Banana Republic. These organizations buy products from the company PT Gistex Group, which owns the manufacturing plant for the production of polyester in Indonesia.
One of the major sources of industrial pollution in the river in West Java is currently the textile industry.
Harmful chemicals get into the water - the sea, lakes and rivers. In the water is discharged chemicals are not only factory producing raw materials and clothing, but also consumers in the wash water drain.
Because of unscrupulous suppliers clothes from Gap turns Chitarum from which water is used as drinking water for millions of people, including residents of Jakarta, in a dangerous multi-colored mush.
Greenpeace Detox project requires manufacturers of textiles to eliminate discharge of chemicals by 2020, which are present in the tissue, which made clothes, and get to it in the process.
