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Recommendations of the International team of Experts on the remediation of the former...

Publication | November 26, 2004 at 0:00

In the lead up to the 20th anniversary of the worst industrial disaster in history, an independent team of experts presented recommendations for a clean up operation of the contaminated Union Carbide (UC) site in Bhopal that could be carried out...

Greenpeace intercepts illegal US electronic waste shipment to Hong Kong

Press release | June 14, 2008 at 12:32

Greenpeace activists boarded the Yang Ming Success and prevented the offloading of an illegal container of waste electronic devices (e-waste) from Port of Oakland in the United States, on its way to Sanshui district in mainland China, via Hong...

Dow's fashion show visited by Bhopal survivors

Feature story | September 21, 2004 at 0:00

At the opening of the Premier Vision textile exhibition in Paris, activists dressed in black t-shirts - each one revealing the faces of Bhopal victims - confronted Dow Chemical as the company presented its new fibre, XLA. Dow Chemical is...

Bon voyage, mercury waste

Feature story | May 23, 2003 at 0:00

A container ship currently heading from southern India to the US represents a small victory in the fight against corporate crime across the globe. The ship is carrying 320 tonnes of toxic mercury contaminated waste which comes from a closed plant...

Australian toxic waste export stopped just in time

Feature story | January 6, 2011 at 16:50

Greenpeace and a broad swath of civil society groups in Australia and Europe have successfully prevented solvents and explosives maker Orica from sailing tonnes of extremely harmful chemical waste from Australia to Denmark for incineration. In...

Where does e-waste end up?

Background | February 24, 2009 at 9:10

Many old electronic goods gather dust in storage waiting to be reused, recycled or thrown away. The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) estimates that as much as three quarters of the computers sold in the US are stockpiled in garages and...

Joint Declaration on Implementing Urgent Global Solutions

Publication | December 11, 2005 at 0:00

Shipbreaking yards provide the last resting place for End of Life Ships. At these yards, ships are scrapped, primarily for their steel content. Ship scrapping, often referred to as ’shipbreaking’, provides employment to thousands of workers in...

Greenpeace forced out of Apple Mac Expo

Press release | October 26, 2006 at 0:00

Greenpeace's high profile 'Green my Apple' stall was shut-down today at the start of the Mac Expo. (1) Organisers of the Mac Expo claimed they had received complaints from unnamed sources. The Greenpeace stall was bought for the three-day expo in...

Greenpeace accuses shipping industry of profiting from poison

Press release | October 4, 2002 at 0:00

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