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MINA extols Top Fashion action vs illegal dumping
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Posted on Nov 01 2006
Garment factory Top Fashion has instructed all its employees to prevent the company’s waste from being scavenged and left as litter. The company has also instituted a uniform policy on the handling of its waste.
These actions have prompted Mariana Islands Nature Alliance officer Kathy Yuknavage to commend the company for its prompt response to a concern raised by the Coastal Resource Management Office.
Yuknavage said the garment factory had been asked by the environmental agency to help eliminate the illegal dumping of its factory wastes.
Yuknavage said that CRM is commending Top Fashion for being a responsible business entity by implementing corrective action and setting an example to other companies.
“CRMO also recognizes their commitment to mitigating past actions by having a representative take part in MINA’s cleanup activity last month at Wing Beach,” she said.
In September, MINA reported to CRM that its volunteers had found several boxes from Top Fashion that had been illegally dumped at a “picnic” site. MINA also reported that during the group’s cleanup in August several pieces of dark blue garment remnants, filling at least three garbage bags, were found at the same location.
MINA was unable to determine whether the fabric had been left there for a long period of time, but the boxes found this month suggests to CRM that the litter originated from the same source as beachgoers usually frequent the same picnic sites.
The incident, when brought up with Top Fashion, prompted the company to issue a memorandum to its employees, warning them against littering:
“This is to inform all employees that recent incidents in which fabrics and carton boxes from Top Fashion Corporation were utilized for personal use on public areas such as beaches and were left behind without properly disposing them had caused regulatory government agencies concerns of littering. Effectively immediately, no employee of Top Fashion Corporation shall be allowed to take any fabric and/or carton boxes out of the company premises whatsoever. Any employee failing to comply with such policy shall be subject to disciplinary measures imposed by the company,” it read.
