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The Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) program called Clean by Design, works with Chinese textile mills to help them improve their energy and water efficiency, while also reducing the use of toxic chemicals which in turn help save money while going green.
Clean by Design further quantifies how effective the program can be. Using benchmarking data from 33 textile mills in China, the program saved the participating factories a total of $14.73 million in reduced operating costs. The average mill reduced its water usage by nine percent, its electricity usage by four percent.
