CHINA’S DYEING UNITS SEE THINGS SHAKEN UP BY GOVERNMENT’S MUCH TOUGHER NEW ENVIRONMENTAL STANCE
July 1st, 2016
It has been a little over a year since China in April 2015 launched its comprehensive Water Pollution Prevention and Control Action Plan (called the ‘Water Ten Plan’), which has triggered profound changes within the country’s textile dyeing sector. Under the most stringent water policy to date in China, factories were given a maximum of three years to clean up and upgrade equipment for water recycling to avoid a shutdown by regulators. The tight timetable has been regarded as a sign the government means business – imposing an ultimatum for the sector to ...
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