Wastewater treatment plant in production

Labelling

If the requirement has been verified with a label, check that there is a valid license for the product in question. This can be checked on each website: Nordic Swan Ecolabel, EU Ecolabel, GOTS, Ökotex.

If the requirement has been verified with bluesign, a valid certificate can be requested from the supplier. The Supplier can receive a certrificate from its “bluesign system partner” in the supply chain. bluesign APPROVED covers the different textiles. If bluesign APPROVED is used as verification a certificate for each ingoing textile in the product is needed.

Process description/documentation

If the requirement has been verified with process description/documentation, follow up that any of the following exists:

• current process description for wastewater treatment or closed process at the production facility
• documentation of connection to an external wastewater treatment plant

Self-declaration verified by an accredited verification body

If a verified self-declaration is used to prove that the requirement is fulfilled, request the supplier’s self-declaration, including documentation showing that the requirement is met. The self-declaration shall be verified by a verification body accredited for the task in accordance with ISO / IEC 17029 or equivalent standard.

Documentation regarding wastewater treatment shall be obtained from the production where the main component in each textile product is dyed and prepared. A textile product can consist of many different components. To obtain a reasonable extent of the documentation that verifies the requirement, a delimitation has been made to the main component, which shall constitute at least 70 percent by weight of the textile product. This avoids requirements on documentation for smaller parts of the product, such as cuffs, elastics, and reinforcements.

Closed processes that do not generate wastewater meet the requirement. This shall appear in the process description.

There are currently a limited number of accredited verification bodies according to ISO / IEC 17029 (Conformity assessment - General principles and requirements for validation and verification bodies), as it is a relatively new standard. However, this may change, especially if the demand for verifying compliance in this way increases. More information about the standard and accredited verification bodies can be found on Swedac's website.

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