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Wednesday, December 10, 2014
Lidl is known as grocery stores, but at the same time, the company is also the eighth largest fashion retailer in Germany. After Greenpeace has found abundant pollutants in the textiles, the discount will banish toxins future.
In October, Greenpeace has shown plenty of dangerous chemicals in children’s clothes from discount stores. With Lidl now the first vendor has responded. By 2020, the company wants to produce textiles his own brand without environmental and health hazardous chemicals. For this you have signed an agreement with Greenpeace, Lidl said. The discount is the eighth largest fashion retailer in Germany.
Lidl and other discounters had not only pollutant test poorly. In a shopping guide Greenpeace also denounced weaknesses in the use of raw materials in the recycling of clothing and social standards in production. Lidl is now the first food discounter, which comply with the request of Greenpeace to detoxify the production. 21 fashion companies, including Zara, H & M, Adidas, Puma and six Italian suppliers have already committed themselves to manage up to 2020 without toxic chemicals. Even the coffee and grocer Tchibo is working with Greenpeace together and had recently a return and recycling program announced.
Lidl make a tremendous first step forward, praised Manfred Santen, chemistry expert at Greenpeace. “Well Aldi, Penny, Tesco, Carrefour and Wal-Mart have to follow suit.” The schedule provides that until the end of June 2016, all the clothing sold free of harmful pollutants such as alkylphenol ethoxylates (APEs) are. From them arise in the wastewater alkylphenols, harm aquatic animals such as fish and snails in rivers and lakes, as Greenpeace. In detergents those substances were already been partially banned in Europe, said the environmental organization. In the country of China, however, two-thirds of the waters were already burdened with environmental and hazardous chemicals.
More aboutUntil July 2017, at Lidl also called per- and polyfluorinated chemicals disappear. You can search for display of Greenpeace influence on the immune system and have the reproduction. 80 percent of the supp liers of Lidl should also disclose to the end of 2015 data on their wastewater.
According to Greenpeace makes Lidl alone with clothes annual sales of one billion euros. A spokeswoman for the discounter would not confirm the number. In the 2013/2014 fiscal year, sales of Lidl in Europe were at 54 billion euros, in Germany there were 18 billion euros.
Source: n-tv.de
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