Greenpeace campaign against Levi’s RW company
In their fight with establishments polluting our planet Greenpeace has last started to challenge LEVI’ s company.
We believe peoples of the world should pay much more attention and not deny their support to Greenpeace which is probably the most (and maybe the only truly) influential organization spending endless efforts to protect the nature, for our children to use their rights to live on this planet as well.
As “HUMAN BEINGS” it is our right and DUTY to go on the GREENPEACE web site to put a signature underneath this campaign and extend wahtever further support we can.
As part of this endevaour, Greenpeace activists dressed as mannequins staged a “mannequin revolt” outside Levi’s flagship store in San Francisco, Dec. 6, 2012, to demand Levi’s commit to eliminating all hazardous chemicals from its supply chain.
Greenpeace released the “Toxic Threads: Under Wraps” report Wednesday detailing the extent of the toxic water pollution coming from two of Mexico’s largest clothing manufacturers, both of which supply Levi’s. Join the campaign, and let’s give Levi’s 501,000 reasons to #GoForth and Detox!
06.12.2012
BUSINESS TURKEY TODAY
Levi’s & Detox
“From the way we make our products to how we run the company, we’re committed to restoring the environment. Consumers expect this from us, employees demand it, and the planet requires it.”
This is a statement made by Chip Bergh, President and CEO of Levi Strauss and Co, the producer of the very famous Levi’s jeans. The reality however is that Levi’s is directly linked to the use and discharge of hazardous chemicals into Mexican rivers.
In Greenpeace International’s latest report, “Toxic Threads: Under Wraps”, we show the results of water samples that were taken at discharge pipes used by two manufacturing facilities supplying Levi’s: Lavamex and Kaltex. Both facilities were found to be discharging a cocktail of hazardous chemicals. One of the facilities was also found to be discharging nonylphenol, a chemical used in textile manufacturing that has already been banned in many countries. This chemical is very persistent and remains toxic even as it works its way through the food chain. It is able to act as a hormone disrupter, accumulate in the tissue of fish and has recently been detected in human tissue.
Lavamex, one of the facilities whose discharges were sampled, is almost exclusively involved in the dying and washing of denim and it is already known locally for its pollution. The discharge pipe run 24 hours a day, every day of the year, spewing forth a river of blue wastewater. Lavamex uses a wastewater treatment facility to treat these discharges, but many toxic chemicals survive this process, as the samples prove.
How can a company like Levi’s, who has made such a public statement in support of protecting the environment, be directly linked to such brazen toxic pollution?
