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Water

Topic | 4 November, 2009 at 16:46

Water is central to our lives but it is also the world's most threatened essential resource. Some of the worst industrial pollution is contaminating the world's most vulnerable water resources.

A Gap between your Words and the Truth

Blog entry by Ashov Birry | 25 April, 2013 8 comments

Last week Greenpeace International released the results of an investigation, which revealed that Gap Inc. (the company behind global brands including Banana Republic, Old Navy and its namesake Gap) is in business with a polluting...

Chemistry for any weather

Blog entry by Ieva Vilimaviciute | 12 December, 2013

Here in Europe, winter has well and truly arrived and the cold is setting in. This is the one time of the year when even the most hardenned fashionistas put comfort before style - digging out those thick gloves and warm winter jackets...

Li-Ning and C&A; join Adidas, H&M;, Nike and Puma in tackling fashion industry's toxic...

Press release | 21 November, 2011 at 12:00

Amsterdam, 21 November 2011 - Greenpeace today welcomed the 'Joint Roadmap' (1) published by international clothing companies Adidas, H&M;, Nike and Puma, as an important step towards the elimination of all releases of hazardous substances from...

'Impossible is nothing' as Adidas join Nike and Puma in cleaning up their supply chain

Press release | 31 August, 2011 at 13:04

Beijing/Herzogenaurach, 30th August 2011 - Adidas, the world's second largest sportswear brand, has responded (1) to the Greenpeace 'Detox' challenge by committing to zero discharge of hazardous chemicals throughout its entire supply chain and...

Greenpeace challenges Adidas and Nike to champion a toxic-free future

Press release | 13 July, 2011 at 6:53

Beijing, July 13th 2011 - Greenpeace activists displayed a banner with the message "Detox" at the main entrance of both the world's largest Adidas store and a nearby Nike store today in Beijing, calling on the sportswear giants to remove...

Greenpeace Uses Instagram and Auto-tuned News to Help Consumers Challenge Big Brands

Press release | 15 March, 2012 at 17:27

Amsterdam, 15 March 2012: To mark the 50th anniversary of World Consumer Rights Day, Greenpeace today celebrated the role of consumers in changing corporate behavior by launching a musical video and a people-powered instagram competition which...

Six months later: communities are still suffering from one of Brazil’s worst...

Blog entry by Alan Azevedo | 6 May, 2016

Six months have passed since one of the worst environmental tragedies in Brazil’s history: the Samarco dam collapse . On 5 November, 2015, Samarco’s mining waste dam gave way, releasing a torrent of contaminated mud that killed 19...

‘These are our prayers in action’  –  a look at life in the #NoDAPL Resistance camps

Blog entry by Peter Dakota Molof | 18 October, 2016

For months, the Standing Rock Sioux and allies have been protecting their water by resisting construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline, which would carry 500,000 barrels of oil a day from North Dakota to Illinois in the United States.

G-Star commits to Detox

Blog entry by Ilze Smit | 31 January, 2013 3 comments

Sometimes the longest struggles can be the most rewarding. Today -- after ten months of #PeoplePowered activities and behind-the-scenes haggling -- G-Star has committed to eliminate all uses of hazardous chemicals from its supply...

Greenpeace: Nike, Esprit, Victoria’s Secret and LiNing fail toxic-free fashion ranking

Press release | 5 July, 2016 at 8:00

Hamburg, 5 July 2016 – Greenpeace International today releases its Detox Catwalk, assessing how effectively 19 major fashion brands are cleaning up their supply chains of toxic chemicals. Inditex (which owns Zara), H&M; and Benetton are the only...

A green catwalk in Milan

Blog entry by Chiara Campione | 20 February, 2013

The Milan Fashion Show, one of the world’s top haute couture spots, has had an unexpected and green start this year as Greenpeace Italy activists unveiled a ‘vertical catwalk’ on the façade of the splendid Sforzesco Castle. ...

Which fashion brands are going toxic-free?

Blog entry by Kirsten Brodde | 5 July, 2016 6 comments

It was a massive step when Adidas, Puma and Nike promised to go toxic-free by 2020. But when we turned our attention to other companies, the rest of the industry put up resistance. “It’s not feasible what Greenpeace wants us to do,”...

Dirty Laundry Reloaded into your washing-machine

Feature story | 20 March, 2012 at 17:10

Global fashion brands are turning us into unwitting polluters. This is what we discovered in our latest research conducted on clothing and sportswear produced by big companies such as Abercrombie & Fitch, Ralph Lauren and G-Star.

New clothing tests implicate global brands in release of hormone-disrupting chemicals

Press release | 23 August, 2011 at 5:01

Beijing - Manila, 23 August 2011 - The latest research into toxic water pollution released today by Greenpeace International reveals the presence of nonylphenol ethoxylates (1) in clothing items bearing the logos of 14 global brands (2),...

A Little Story about a Fashionable Lie

Publication | 17 February, 2014 at 8:00

A new investigation by Greenpeace International has found a broad range of hazardous chemicals in children's clothing and footwear produced by eight luxury fashion brands.

Toxic Threads: Putting Pollution on Parade

Publication | 4 December, 2012 at 4:30

How textile manufacturers are hiding their toxic trail. A new investigation by Greenpeace International has found a wide range of hazardous substances in the effluent of communal wastewater treatment plants from two industrial zones in China, as...

A Monstrous Mess: toxic water pollution in China

Feature story | 23 January, 2014 at 14:30

A team from Greenpeace East Asia's Detox campaign recently discovered an unsettling sight off the coast of South Eastern China. Next to the city of Shishi, a centre for children's clothing production, they discovered a huge black plume of...

One year later and no justice: Communities affected by dam disaster speak out

Blog entry by Fabiana Alves | 8 November, 2016 1 comment

This past Saturday – 5 November, 2016 – hundreds of people gathered at the ruins of the Bento Rodrigues school in Mariana, Minas Gerais state, Brazil. They were there out of remembrance, and to call for justice. Exactly one year...

New Greenpeace Report shines spotlight on the Hidden Costs of Toxic Water Pollution

Press release | 25 May, 2011 at 14:57

Greenpeace today published ‘Hidden Consequences’, a report that shines a spotlight on the polluted conditions of four iconic rivers, located in the ‘Global South’ (1): the Yangtze, the Chao Phraya, the Marilao and the Neva. The report calls for...

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