The CEO of a giant Chinese textile manufacturer shares her story about integrating sustainability in
Inspiring quotes from Marjorie Yang of the Chinese Esquel Group: Sustainablity comes from within.
"One day I was in the dying factory and I heard the fish in the pond nearby had died. When I asked them 'Why?' they said 'Well hello, we are in the textile business!'
I thought, that's strange.. So I went home and asked my father who is a textile chemist, and he said 'That is not neccesarily so'.
It seems that, wherever the fashion business goes, rivers have to turn into different colours - which definitely, does not have to be like that.
And that's the start of the journey into taking the rest of the people along this journey to use knowledge to offset the myth, that if you're in the textile business, you have to be polluting."