Every year, the textile industry uses 1.3 trillion gallons of water to dye garments – enough to fill 2 million Olympic-sized swimming pools. Most of this water, loaded with harmful chemicals and ...

Carlisle Finishing is a closed textile plant along the Broad River more than 60 miles north of a major Columbia drinking water source. Forever chemical pollution has been found on the property.

Water pollution by textile industries In recent years, Bangladesh has achieved rapid economic growth and expects to become a middle-income country by 2021.

The Milliken & Company textile plant, which has a history of pollution violations along the Ogeechee River in eastern Georgia, announced Wednesday that it plans to shut down for good.

With the Buyuk Menderes river facing increasing water risks, WWF-Turkey and the South Aegean Development Agency (GEKA) have launched an innovative programme to promote investment by local and ...

World Environment Day: Currently, the fashion industry represents 20% of industrial water contamination and pollution worldwide. The textile/fibre dyeing process, used by the fashion supply chain ...

Human impact Water pollution from the textile industry is a huge problem across garment-producing countries, most of which are found in Asia due to its huge pool of cheap labor.

Few companies showed awareness of water pollution across all stages of their value chain, and only Swedish fast fashion firm H&M acknowledged the issue of microfiber pollution.

What’s more, the impact of this pollution overload is set to linger on even if the industrial chain does manage to fully transform itself in cooperation with the textile processing manufacturers.