Greenpeace airs the textile industry’s dirty laundry

Last week Greenpeace International released a report focused on the water-pollution practices of China’s top two textile manufacturers. The report, called Dirty Laundry, clearly documents in photos and with scientific testing that clothes are not the only things coming out of these massive garment factories.

The report is based on a year-long investigation of two major Chinese suppliers, the Youngor Textile Complex in Ningbo on the Yangtze River Delta and the Well Dyeing Factory in the Pearl River Delta near Hong Kong. Greenpeace campaigners, often in protective suits (see photo above by Qiu Bo / Greenpeace), collected water samples from outside the factories that were carefully analyzed. The results clearly show that toxins are spilling into China’s rivers on a daily basis.

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