Eliminate toxic chemicals

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Unborn babies are exposed in the womb to synthetic chemicals.

The production, trade, use, and release of many synthetic chemicals is now widely recognised as a global threat to human health and the environment.

Yet, the world's chemical industries continue to produce and release thousands of chemical compounds every year, in most cases with none or very little testing and understanding of their impacts on people and the environment.

Chemicals Crisis
The world today faces a chemical crisis. Governments and industry have failed to control the spread of dangerous chemicals around the globe. Now these chemicals are out of control. They're in our environment, our homes and in our bodies. Read about hazardous chemicals in the products we use and our chance to win a global precedent to control the chemicals crisis, starting in Europe.

Toxic trade
Stricter environmental regulations in developed countries have led to many polluting industries transferring their toxic technologies to the developing world. We are fighting to ensure an end of toxic trade to regions of the world least equipped to deal with inevitable pollution and accidents, such as the Electronic waste trade in China, Bhopal disaster in India, and shipbreaking in Asia.

PVC
Despite its many alternatives, Polyvinyl Chloride (PVC) is one of the most widely used plastics. Unfortunately, its production, use and disposal create toxic pollution.

Incineration
The amount of waste produced by humans is increasing. Therefore strong political and industrial measures are urgently needed to change this trend. Incineration is not the solution but part of the problem.