Process is that crucial link between inputs and outputs. Safer inputs make a big difference, as long as they are used the right way. That's key to reducing their environmental impact. When good procedures and best practice are in place, outputs become cleaner, and process works.
For a value chain to reduce its environmental impacts, good business practices are needed. The ZDHC CMS includes two parts. The first is the ZDHC CMS Framework which lays out the minimum components of a CMS. The second is the ZDHC CMS Technical Industry Guide which covers the implementation of a CMS in the supply chain.
The ZDHC CMS Framework gives a high-level overview of the CMS requirements. However, each organisation defines its implementation scope and may include specific operating unit(s) or a range of parts of its value chain. Brands, suppliers and facilities can adopt the CMS Framework with the Chemical Industry, Service Providers, and other supply chain partners.
To harmonise requirements across Brands and Suppliers in the implementation of Sustainable Chemical Management, the CMS Technical Industry Guide provides the basis. Suppliers can tailor and implement their plans to meet the harmonised expectations, whether they are tanneries, dye-houses, mills, printers or footwear assembly units, or another kind of facility.
The ZDHC MRSL V3.1 saw a number of solvents added to the main list. Whilst we do not condone the use of these solvents, we recognise that it is not possible for the textile and footwear value chains to move away from some of these solvents overnight towards safer alternatives. During this time in case the banned solvents are used, they should be used responsibly to ensure worker health and safety at facility level, with a reduction in their environmental impact. This guide provides support to the industry on approaches to find safer alternatives and for best practices in managing the solvents at a facility, if used.
We provide a template CIL. It's designed to help facilities keep an inventory of chemicals being used in each work area. A well created, well maintained CIL supports traceability and chemical handling decisions. It promotes responsible usage and helps to control future disposal costs. This template will help in achieving those aims.
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ZDHC InCheck Solutions help suppliers demonstrate their efforts to improve the management of their chemical inventory towards sustainable chemistry and conformance with the ZDHC Manufacturing Restricted Substances List (ZDHC MRSL). Suppliers can demonstrate that they purchase chemical products which minimise risk to human health, improve worker safety, and have limited impact on the environment. ZDHC InCheck Solutions also enable suppliers to assess their own chemical inventory conformance to ZDHC MRSL and share the results with brand customers, without sharing details of the chemical inventory itself.ZDHC InCheck Solutions explains each solution and how it can be implemented.
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A ZDHC Performance InCheck Report is based on the chemical inventory as uploaded by a supplier via a third party solution provider platform approved by ZDHC. The quality of the Performance InCheck Report depends on the accuracy and completeness of the chemical inventory uploaded by the supplier. This is why ZDHC has extended InCheck Solutions to include a verification component. This is covered by Verified InCheck – Level 1.
The objective of a Verified InCheck – Level 1 is firstly, to review the overall completeness and accuracy of the chemical products in a supplier’s chemical inventory with those published in the ZDHC Gateway – Chemical Module and secondly, to enhance confidence in the Performance InCheck Reports generated by a supplier
This document addresses integrated expectations for discharged wastewater quality, emissions to air, and chemical recovery for manufacturing facilities producing Man-Made Cellulosic Fibres (MMCF). It expands the scope of the guidelines beyond Viscose and Modal Staple Fibres to include other Man-Made Cellulosic Fibres such as Lyocell, Viscose Filament Yarn, Cupro and Acetate. The creation of this document was made possible through a collaborative effort between ZDHC and our stakeholders from across the industry, including MMCF manufacturing facilities, brands, service providers and other subject matter experts.
This support document underlines the steps and actions necessary to implement the ZDHC MMCF Guidelines and support the involved stakeholders during the implementation.
The guidelines document is an initiative by ZDHC to address the use and discharge of chemicals in
wood-based dissolved pulp manufacturing*. It includes chemical recovery, wastewater and air emission requirements for wood-based dissolved pulp facilities. The creation of this document was made possible through a collaborative effort between ZDHC and our stakeholders from across the industry, including dissolved pulp manufacturing facilities, brands, service providers and other subject matter experts.
*This document does not cover the process of turning textile waste into dissolved pulp for MMCF.
The use of recycled polyester in the fashion industry has grown increasingly. In order to support the industry with a framework for sustainable chemical management in the production process for bottle-to-textile and textile-to-textile recycling processes, ZDHC has developed the Recycled Polyester Guidelines V1.0.
These guidelines set requirements, across three chapters, for recycled polyester manufacturers on key chemicals used in recycled polyester processes, the recovery and reuse of these chemicals, safe chemical storage and handling, worker safety and the environmental impacts of commercially viable processes on wastewater, air and sludge.
This support document underlines the steps and actions necessary to implement the ZDHC Recycled Polyester Guidelines and support our stakeholders during the implementation.
