Toxic substances list: effluents from textile mills that use wet processing

Textile mill effluents (TMEs) are wastewater discharges from textile mills that are involved in wet processes such as scouring, neutralizing, desizing, mercerizing, carbonizing, fulling, bleaching, dyeing, printing and other wet finishing activities. They are not generated at facilities that conduct only dry processing (carding, spinning, weaving and knitting), laundering or manufacturing of synthetic fibres through chemical processes.

CAS number: not applicable.

Risk Assessment

• Priority Substances List Assessment Report
• Order Adding Toxic Substances to Schedule 1 to the Canadian Environmental Protection Act, 1999
• CEPA 1999 Schedule 1 - List of Toxic Substances - This substance has been added to the List of Toxic Substances. It is entering or may enter the environment in a quantity or concentration or under conditions that:
  a) have or may have an immediate or long-term harmful effect on the environment or its biological diversity.
• Full life cycle management of the substance (Track 2) under the Toxic Substances Management Policy

Source(s)

This substance is entering the environment from the following source(s):

• Wet Processing Textile Industry

Risk Management Strategy

Click on the following link to view strategies and actions recommended to manage risks associated with the substance:

• Risk Management Strategy in Respect of Effluents from Textile Mills that Use Wet Processing (TMEs) and Nonylphenol (NP) and its Ethoxylates (NPEs) Under CEPA 1999

Risk Management Tool(s)

Tool(s) developed to manage risks associated with the substance:

• Notice Requiring the Preparation and Implementation of Pollution Prevention Plans in Respect of Nonylphenol and its Ethoxylates Used in the Wet Processing Textile Industry and Effluents From Textile Mills that Use Wet Processing
• Pollution Prevention Planning Notices - Textile Mills that Use Wet Processing

Consultation

Consultation (past and present) on the substance:

• Proposed Notice Requiring the Preparation and Implementation of Pollution Prevention Plans in Respect of Nonylphenol (NP) and Its Ethoxylates (NPEs) Used in the Wet Processing Textile Industry and Effluents from Textile Mills That Use Wet Processing (TMEs) 2003-06-07 (archived consultation document)(HTML)
• Proposed Notice Requiring the Preparation and Implementation of Pollution Prevention Plans in Respect of Nonylphenol (NP) and Its Ethoxylates (NPEs) Used in the Wet Processing Textile Industry and Effluents from Textile Mills That Use Wet Processing (TMEs) 2003-06-07 (archived consultation document) (PDF; 2556 KB)

Other Information

• Technical Resource Guide prepared to Assist Wet Processing Textile Mills Required to Prepare and Implement Pollution Prevention Plans
• Fact sheet for the textile sector

Contact

Substances Management Information Line
Chemicals Management Plan
Gatineau, QC K1A 0H3

Telephone: 1-800-567-1999  (in Canada) or 819-938-3232
Fax: 819-938-3231
E-mail: eccc.substances.eccc@canada.ca

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