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Experts collaborate to update ZDHC wastewater guidelines

01/03/2022

ZDHC Foundation has published an update to its Wastewater Guidelines, combining previously separate textile and leather wastewater guidelines into one.

The ZDHC set up a Wastewater Council - made up of experts from the textile industry, academia and water treatment industry - to help revise the guidelines, and also held a public consultation.

Phil Patterson, ZDHC Wastewater Council chair, said: “Since the publication of the first ZDHC Wastewater Guidelines in 2016, the ZDHC Roadmap to Zero Programme has evolved to become much more of a holistic chemical management programme and this update is an important pillar in that approach.

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