Zero Discharge of Hazardous Chemicals (ZDHC) has released its second report showing significant progress compared to the first report. The year 2020 report showed that it was focused on implementation progress and highlighted recent developments within ZDHC and the industry at large.
ZDHC is a community that brings together professionals and experts united in a mission to create a truly sustainable fashion industry. From its inception in 2011 with six founding brands, the ZDHC Roadmap to Zero Programme has proliferated and is now adopted by 163 contributors, comprising brands, manufacturers, chemical suppliers, and solutions providers.
The ZDHC gateway has grown to become the world’s largest database dedicated to enabling safer chemical products available to the textile, apparel, and footwear industry.
By the end of 2020, 1,427 chemical formulators were using the ZDHC Gateway, and it publishes data on 42,939 chemical products. The suppliers who used it, standing at 4,670 in number at the end of last year, were able to review and analyze essential information on chemical products to determine whether they conformed with the ZDHC MRSL.
The ZDHC Gateway, which provided the data to verify compliance with ZDHC MRSL requirements, included, at the end of 2020, nearly 7,500 published wastewater test reports from 87 ZDHC accepted wastewater testing labs across four continents.
