Discover best ways to reduce chemical risks and increase sustainability
Enhancing your Detox profile does more than reduce and mitigate risks. It can also improve brand reputation, enhance stakeholder trust and make entering even the most tightly-controlled markets faster and more profitable. Further, sustainability never goes out of fashion.
In our series of complimentary, insight-packed webinars, you’ll discover how you can capture your fair share of the growing market for cleaner, chemical-free textiles, clothing and footwear.
Delivered by some of the world’s most experienced experts, the Ask a DetoXpert Webinar Series (#AskADetoXpert) is designed to help enterprises across the entire value chain deep-dive into the details of chemical management and drive the development of Detox-compliant processes.
Our webinars are available on-demand, so you can watch them whenever you like. Remember to keep an eye open for upcoming events too!
Alternatively, feel free to visit us at www.tuv.com/detox for more information.
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Basic Training on Wastewater Analysis for the ZDHC WWG 2.0 Duration: 22 minutes | Actual Webinar Date: March 2022 The first significant revision of the Wastewater Guideline, Version 2.0, was recently released by ZDHC with TÜV Rheinland serving as one of its major contributors. It is the framework document on wastewater quality of major brands and retailers such as Nike, Levis, Adidas, Target, H&M, that applies to suppliers all around the globe. With this approach, it directly reduce the environmental footprint of the global fashion and textile industry. The new version comes with fundamental changes with regards to technical progress and lessons learned since the initial release of the WWG in 2016. This training provides high-level context and addresses changes while introducing the basic concept of analytical methods and quality assurance. DetoXperts: Bernd Fritzche, TÜV Rheinland Group
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Pathways towards eliminating Textiles Waste & Accelerating Circularity Duration: 1 hour 9 minutes | Actual Webinar Date: 1 March 2022 An increasing number of stakeholders in the textile and garment sector are attempting to reduce their environmental impact, with circularity being one of the industry‘s ultimate goals. One of the significant challenges in the industry is textile waste, of which currently less than 1% is recycled. DetoXperts: Petra Schweiger, Accelerating Circularity | Fatema Jahan, TÜV Rheinland Group | Abdur Razzaque, Recycle-Raw | Massimiliano Tropeano, GIZ | Rakesh Vazirani, TÜV Rheinland Group
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Bangladesh preparing to mainstream uniform Chemical Management for Textile/Garment industry Duration: 1 hour 13 minutes | Actual Webinar Date: 17 February 2022 Chemicals are used in almost all work activities in the textile and ready-made garment industries. While not all of these chemicals are dangerous, several of them have inherent properties that may pose a hazard and risk to workers, the environment, and the general public. As Bangladesh prepares to launch and implement the National Chemical Management Guidelines, this webinar is an excellent opportunity to gather international perspectives/recommendations/opinions on benchmarking and further aligning with industry standards. DetoXperts: Kazy Mohammad Iqbal Hossain, Lindex | Klass Nuttbohm, ZDHC | Faisal Rabbi, GIZ | Wakil Hossain, TÜV Rheinland Group | Rakesh Vazirani, TÜV Rheinland Group
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MRSL Conformance Role-Play > Something for Everyone (Brand/Factory/Chemical Formulator) Duration: 1 hour 18 minutes | Actual Webinar Date: 2 December 2021 Chemical manufacturers play a crucial role in realizing the fashion industry’s sustainability ambitions – making it safer and sustainable with proof of ZDHC. At the same time, Brands, Vendors, and Factories are faced with situation whereby they need a strong argument to invest resources locally and further upstream to convince their immediate supplier of passing the message one level deeper into the supply-chain. In this webinar, our featured speakers will be sharing the entire decision-making process of how a responsible brand, factory and chemical formulator can adopt to level up their over MRSL conformance efficiently. DetoXperts: Chau Ngo Minh Nguyen, TÜV Rheinland Group | Arrow Shi, TÜV Rheinland Group | Ata Bayraktar, TÜV Rheinland Group | Monjurul Hoque, TÜV Rheinland Group | Steffen Tuemptner, TÜV Rheinland Group | Sesadev Pradhan, TÜV Rheinland Group | Rakesh Vazirani, TÜV Rheinland Group
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Scaling Rooftop Solar across Fashion Supply Chain > Purpose, Preparedness, Possibilities Duration: 1 hour 36 minutes | Actual Webinar Date: 1 December 2021 With billions of fashion articles being produced every year and MSMEs looking to scale production/exports further, decentralized renewable energy has the potential to modernize and accelerate this growth while reducing emissions. With the textile sector being one of the highest energy consuming sectors amongst consumer products, Rooftop Solar gives textile manufacturers control of one of the critical cost variables, power. In this webinar, our featured speakers will be sharing the key financing opportunities for installation of solar PV (SPV) plants. DetoXperts: Kristin Sommer, GIZ Fabric | Vitor Rodrigues, LONGi Solar | Hieu Tran, Indefol Solar | Jigar Bhatt, Asian Development Bank | Sebastian Petretschek, TÜV Rheinland Group | Rakesh Vazirani, TÜV Rheinland Group
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Addressing the Textile Microplastics Challenge Duration: 1 hour 29 minutes | Actual Webinar Date: 16 November 2021 Many of our favourite garments have been found to be the source of significant microplastics in the ocean. It is estimated that between 0.2 and 0.5 million tonnes of microplastic fibres from textiles enter the marine environment each year. To date, much of the attention has focused on the shedding, washing and disposal of synthetic textiles by consumers. In this webinar, our featured speakers will be sharing on the latest microplastics research and how they can be scaled regionally to weave the eco-system together. DetoXperts: Dr. Cindy Lam, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology | Emily Choi, Invest Hong Kong | Dr. Lei Yao (Gloria), HKRITA | Dr. Frank Lam, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology | Rakesh Vazirani, TÜV Rheinland Group
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Preparing to Excel with your Environmental Performance Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes | Actual Webinar Date: 30 September 2021 As governments and businesses pushes for a more sustainable future, there is an increasing focus to assess the overall impact of textile factories globally. Understanding the full range of frameworks and resources available is essential to kick-start your journey to level up your sustainability capabilities. To improve both the environmental and social performance of textile factories, a multi-prong approach will be required to achieve cohesion. In this webinar, our featured speakers will be sharing the current situation in the APAC region, along Higg FEM, ZDHC TIG best practices and how one can gain access to finance. DetoXperts: Hoang Thanh Nga, WWF Viet Nam | Nguyen Thanh Huong, WWF Viet Nam | Bob Assenberg, Good Fashion Fund | Gundolf Klaehn, GIZ | Rakesh Vazirani, TÜV Rheinland Group
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The Future of Sustainable Fashion Supply Chain - The Road Ahead Duration: 1 hour 35 minutes | Actual Webinar Date: 16 June 2021 With savvy consumers desiring to make a positive environment impact via the clothes they wear, it is important for all stakeholders of the fashion industry to re-define how the industry can truly achieve sustainability across the fashion supply chain – end-to end. In this webinar, we have the privilege to gain first-hand insights from a panelist of global experts on how we can be one step closer to achieving fashion sustainability. DetoXperts: Nazma Akter, Awaj Foundation | Dr. Catherine Tubb, Planet Tracker | Gundolf Klaehn, GIZ | Conor Boyle, ILO | Klaas Nuttbohm, ZDHC | Rakesh Vazirani, TÜV Rheinland Group
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Duration: 1 hour 4 minutes | Actual Webinar Date: 19 April 2021 With WWF-Pakistan spearheading the International Labour & Environmental Standards Application for Pakistan's SMEs (ILES), its overarching goal is to enhance the capacities of the textile and leather sectors to adopt Smart Environmental Management Practices (SEMPs). DetoXperts: Engr. Adeel Younas, WWF Pakistan | Furqan Ullah Mir, Al-Karam Textile Mills | Usman Muzaffar Elahi, Samad Apparel | Rakesh Vazirani, TÜV Rheinland Group
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PFAS No More: Avoid, Reduce, Eliminate Duration: 1 hour 15 minutes | Actual Webinar Date: 17 December 2020 NGOs such as Greenpeace have highlighted the dangers from PFAS used in textiles to repel water and oil. However, regulators and policy makers all over the world have started to take action. In this webinar, our invited guest speakers will providing an overview of the latest PFAS developments and explore the linkages between PFAS in environment to that in consumer products. DetoXperts: Dr. Arlene Blum, Green Science Policy Institute | Dr. Hanna Joerss, Helmholtz-Zentrum hereon GmbH | Dr. Jonatan Kleimark, ChemSec | Rakesh Vazirani, TÜV Rheinland Group
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Open Letter: Time to Speed up Sustainability of the Fashion, Apparel and Textile Sector Duration: 1 hour 27 minutes | Actual Webinar Date: 10 December 2020 The fashion industry having created one of the largest consumer goods markets, with highly sophisticated value chains of significant economic importance. With that, it has an important responsibility to take steps towards a resilient recovery as the pandemic come to past. In this webinar, we will be exploring with our panelist of global experts on how we can collectively take sustainability commitments to the next new level. DetoXperts: Prachi Gupta, GOTS | Alexis Morgan, WWF | Sohail Ali Naqvi, WWF Pakistan | Johannes Furst, Drip by Drip / Montebelo | Rakesh Vazirani, TÜV Rheinland Group
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How Green are your Jeans? – Insights into Innovation & Resource Efficiency Duration: 1 hour 59 minutes | Actual Webinar Date: 30 September 2020 With at least 2 billion pairs of jeans manufactured each year, there is a good chance you are either wearing a pair right now or have a few in your wardrobe. But do you know whether your coolest trousers are truly clean when it comes to the water, chemicals, and energy used to create them? In this webinar, we will explore the requirements for developing a sustainable Denim industry with our panelist of global experts. DetoXperts: Eren Atak, WWF Turkey | N. Sebla Onder, Orta Anadolu | Riaz Ahmad, US Apparel & Textile | Shafqat Ullah, Cleaner Production Institute, Lahore Pakistan | Rakesh Vazirani, TÜV Rheinland Group
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Enabling Informed Choices from Factory to Fashion Duration: 1 hour 48 minutes | Actual Webinar Date: 20 August 2020 Various NGOs have highlighted how toxic chemicals being discharged from wet-processing factories are having an adverse impact to workers and our environment at large. With that, industry associations such as SAC, ZDHC, AMFORI and the Partnership for Sustainable Textiles (PST) have set guidelines to enable resource efficiency during the manufacturing process. In cooperation with GIZ and Green Button experts, this webinar outlines the steps to enable informed choices from factory to fashion. DetoXperts: Gundolf Klaehn, GIZ | Paul Steimer, GIZ | Rakesh Vazirani, TÜV Rheinland Group
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Fast Forward - Higg FEM and Sustainability Goals Duration: Part 1: 1 hour 18 minutes | Part 2: 42 minutes With thousands of facilities manufacturing apparel, footwear, and textiles globally, each manufacturing facility is critical to the industry's long-term viability and sustainability goals. To achieve that, the Higg Facility Tools is available to provide standardized social and environmental assessments which facilitate conversations among value chain partners - to improve every tier of the global value chain on both a social and environmental level. In this 2-parts webinar, our DetoXperts will deep-dive into how one can ace the Higg FEM across Bangladesh, India and Pakistan. DetoXperts: Fatema Jahan, CSR & Sustainability Services | Md Wakil Hossain, TÜV Rheinland Bangladesh | Venkataramaiah HR, CSR & Sustainability | Rashid Mansoor, Environmental Services | Rakesh Vazirani, TÜV Rheinland Group
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Accelerating RCA - The Relevance of MRSL Parameters in Waste Water Duration: 57 minutes | Actual Webinar Date: 8 July 2020 As the textile industry moves ahead with plans to have clean inputs by enforcing MRSL conformance of chemical products, many factories will need to conduct thorough Root Cause Analysis (RCA). DetoXperts: Arrow Shi, TÜV Rheinland Greater China | Shivendra Parm, TÜV Rheinland India | Rakesh Vazirani, TÜV Rheinland Group
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Fast Tracking Input Chemical Compliance with ZDHC MRSL 2.0 Duration: 1 hour 4 minutes | Actual Webinar Date: 29 April 2020 Implementing MRSL requirements is going to change the way facilities that process textile and leather perceive chemicals management. This starts with procurement, where preventing chemicals from entering the facility can reduce the need to treat and clean-up effluent water and solid waste. In summary, our in-house DetoXperts will share with you the risks, challenges and opportunities for MRSL. DetoXperts: Steffen Tuemptner, TÜV Rheinland Germany | Dr. Anh Ba Hoai Nguyen, TÜV Rheinland Vietnam | Rakesh Vazirani, TÜV Rheinland Group
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Wastewater Management in Textile Industry Duration: 1 day (8 hours) | Actual Event Date: 24 September 2019 Co-organized by TÜV Rheinland and Rudolf Duraner, this symposium has brought together important players from the textile industry, including environmental managers and ETP operators, to explore innovative solutions to conserve our water bodies in a sustainable manner. Thought leaders and numerous experts deep-dived into practical case studies both within Turkey and abroad, where key strategies adopted included ZDHC and ZLO. Among the most important lessons learnt are: - Reducing the amount of water consumed during production - Eliminating harmful chemicals during production - Establishing effective wastewater treatment prior to discharge DetoXperts: Songül Kaaraslan Aksu, Rudolf Duraner | Arzu Konyalı, LC Waikiki | Dr. Neyran Akyıldız, WWF Turkey | Neslihan Sebla Önde, Orta Anadolu | Md. Rafiqul Islam, DBL Group | Sajid Hussain, Tamilnadu Water Investment Company Limited | Dr. Hüdai Kara, Turkey Sustainability Code | Gundolf Klaehn, Textile Partnership | Jean-Luc Wietor, European Environmental Bureau | Lex Van Dijk, Blue-tec | Ata Bayraktar, TÜV Rheinland Turkey | Rakesh Vazirani, TÜV Rheinland Group
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