In 2010, China’s textile industry processed 41.3 million tons of fiber and accounted for 52-54 percent of the world’s total production.
The Chinese textile industry creates about3 billiontons of soot each year.Millions of tonsof unused fabric at Chinese mills go to waste each year when dyed the wrong color.
A single mill in China can use200 tonsof water for each ton of fabric it dyes; many rivers run with the colours of the season as the untreated toxic dyes wash off from mills.
In 2010, the textile industry ranked third for overall in Chinese industry for waste water discharge amount at2.5 billiontons of waste water per year.
The textile industry discharges about300,600 tonsof COD and contributes to 8.2 percent of COD pollution in China
As of February 20 th, 2012, theChina Pollution Map Databasehad 6,000 records of textile factories violating environmental regulations, including: discharging waste water from hidden pipes; discharging untreated pollutants; improper use of waste water treatment facilities; exceeding total pollutant discharge allowed; and using production facilities that were shut down by the authorities for various reasons.
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