Greenpeace attacks ZDHC Roadmap
14/06/2013
It said: "As the global water crisis worsens – against a backdrop of unrelenting hazardous and hormone-disrupting substances released into our public waterways by the fashion industry – the ambition and actions shown by this group seem out of touch with both the reality on the ground, and the demands of the brand's stakeholders, fans and customers.
"The good news is that some members of the ZDHC Group are taking this issue more seriously, and have taken ambitious and measurable action that far exceeds the ambitions of the Group. H&M, for example, has banned all uses of all PFCs from its global supply chain, while the ZDHC Group has so far only offered more promises to eliminate a limited portion of PFCs from their supply chains and products by 2015.
"In contrast, the ZDHC Group has limited its ambition to more pilots and promises, preferring to deliver a tiny amount of disclosure from anonymous facilities, and refusing to disclose on a supplier-by-supplier and chemical-by-chemical basis.
"The key question moving forward is whether certain ZDHC Group members will continue to delay and frustrate the progress of other more ambitious brands, or go 'all in' to create of a toxic-free future."
The group – which includes Nike, Puma, adidas and Li Ning – broadened the goals of the initiative in the second draft, looking at the wider environmental and social effects of the supply chain, rather than just focusing on chemicals.
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