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Detox Interim Balance II How Serious Traders Take Responsible Fashion

Do supermarkets sell food? Yes, but not only. A rapidly changing cheap range of clothing, home textiles and shoes has long been part of the fixed range of supermarkets. A concept that works: The way to the freezer leads past the current spring collection, and likes to slander a cheap pair of sneakers next to the mountain cheese in the shopping cart. Accordingly, Aldi, Lidl and Tchibmit each generated around one billion EurTextil sales per year among Germany's largest fashion retailers. In autumn 2014, Greenpeace takes a closer look at supermarket textiles
and must realize that it has both clothes and shoes in it: The commissioned laboratory finds chemicals harmful to the environment and health in the various samples. Faced with the results introduction, Aldi, Kaufland, Lidl, Rewe/Penny and Tchib undertake to rethink: By 2020, all harmful chemicals should have disappeared from their textile range. They also promise to inform about sustainable consumption. Specifically, customers should be encouraged to buy more sustainable products and avoid unnecessary clothing and shoe purchases. Interim balance sheet: Paper is patient, we are not. That's why Greenpeace investigated what actions actually followed the words of about two years ago. In 2015, Greenpeace made its first interim assessment. The analysis and ranking on the following pages show how supermarket chains have developed since then. The rankings were based on developments in the banning of hazardous chemicals as well as in the switch to durable and recyclable fashion. These were assessed on the basis of the detox progress reports and other publicly available information from the companies. The corresponding criteria are published on www.greenpeace.de.

Scope: 17 pages
Reference: free of charge for download at Greenpeace.