{"id":43453,"date":"2022-10-14T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-10-14T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kyotoclub.org\/?p=43453"},"modified":"2022-10-17T09:08:09","modified_gmt":"2022-10-17T07:08:09","slug":"textile-producing-nations-unite-to-reduce-chemical-waste","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kyotoclub.org\/en\/news-en\/news-from-the-world\/2022\/10\/14\/textile-producing-nations-unite-to-reduce-chemical-waste\/","title":{"rendered":"Textile-producing nations unite to reduce chemical  waste"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Employing over 10 million people, the four nations\u2019 textile sectors&nbsp;account for near <a href=\"https:\/\/oec.world\/en\/profile\/hs\/textiles\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">15% of global clothing exports<\/a>. However, the economic benefits of the industry come at a cost, with the sector being one of the world\u2019s major users of Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) and per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), a family of approximately <a href=\"https:\/\/statics.teams.cdn.office.net\/evergreen-assets\/safelinks\/1\/atp-safelinks.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">12,000 synthetic chemicals<\/a> which do not break down and accumulate in the environment, threatening human and ecosystem health.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Wet processing factories, where materials are turned into fabrics through bleaching, printing, dyeing, finishing and laundering typically use <a href=\"https:\/\/statics.teams.cdn.office.net\/evergreen-assets\/safelinks\/1\/atp-safelinks.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">0.58 kg of chemical inputs for every 1 kg of fabric produced<\/a>. These compounds leak into the environment at all phases of the textile lifecycle, from production to use, disposal and recycling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unep.org\/news-and-stories\/press-release\/textile-producing-nations-unite-reduce-chemical-waste\">More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Governments of Bangladesh, Indonesia, Pakistan and Viet Nam have joined forces to fight chemical pollution today, launching a joint $43-million programme to manage and reduce hazardous chemicals in their textile industries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"kc_post_selected_socio_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-from-the-world"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.7 - 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