Zara stops toxic clothing manufacture

Spanish fashion chain Zara is going stop dumping toxic waste

resulting from the manufacture of apparel. The world's largest fashion chain and parent company Inditex have succumbed to the pressure exercised by Greenpeace last week when it published its report 'Toxic Threads: The Big Fashion Stitch-Up'.

The report contains the results of an investigation into the use of toxins in the production of clothing by twenty major fashion companies. Carcinogens were found in all the apparel, including clothing made by Zara.

Inditex plans to reveal details about the use of chemicals by one hundred suppliers this year and has promised to end production of harmful fashion by 2020.

"If even the world's largest fashion chain can do this, there is no longer any excuse for other brands not to do the same," says campaign leader Ilze Smit of Greenpeace The Netherlands. "It's high time for all those other brands, like Esprit, Gap and Victoria's Secret, to listen to their customers and to stop producing toxic fashion."