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17,000 hazardous chemicals and counting - open-sourcing Greenpeace’s global chemical...

Blog entry by Pierre Terras | 2 April, 2016 4 comments

Greenpeace is campaigning for a toxic-free future where hazardous chemicals are no longer produced, used and dumped into our environment. This includes chemicals which are persistent, toxic, bioaccumulative, carcinogenic and disruptive...

The perfect gift for parents everywhere

Blog entry by Selena Du | 30 July, 2013 1 comment

While one baby in particular has grabbed global headlines recently, on the other side of the world comes a fantastic piece of news for parents from Beijing to Buckingham Palace. On July 1, China notified the World Trade Organisation...

Because we fight for life

Blog entry by Pierre Terras | 10 December, 2012 4 comments

Graciela invited me to her home in El Salto, a city on one of Mexico's most polluted rivers, the Rio Santiago. She wanted to share the story of her community's struggle for environmental justice. "Every family here has at least one...

Denim factory worker in China

Image | 14 August, 2010 at 16:04

14 August 2010 - Guangdong Province, China. Every morning, workers at a denim washing factory in Xintang, Zengcheng, must search through wastewater to scoop out stones that are washed with the fabric in industrial washing machines to make...

Jeans on sale in China

Image | 14 August, 2010 at 15:45

14 August 2010 - Guangdong Province, China. An aisle at the International Jeans Wholesale City in Xintang, Zengcheng. In Xintang, where the economy is centered around textile production, Greenpeace has found high levels of industrial pollution...

Wastewater in China

Image | 14 August, 2010 at 15:50

14 August 2010 - Guangdong Province, China. Wastewater discharged from a denim washing factory in Xintang, Zengcheng. In Xintang, where the economy is centered around textile production, Greenpeace has found high levels of industrial pollution...

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