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Eliminate toxic chemicals

Toxic chemicals in our environment threaten our rivers and lakes, our air, land, and oceans, and ultimately ourselves and our future.

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.

Water

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.

Find out more about our water campaign.

The latest updates

 

Three pillars and a mermaid: A trip to Copenhagen on the road to Detox.

Blog entry by Kirsten Brodde, Detox Campaigner | May 3, 2012

I have just arrived in Copenhagen to give a speech at the #Copenhagen #Fashion Summit . The organizers claim this to be the world's largest and most important conference on sustainability and CSR in the fashion industry. The biennial... Read more >

"Toxic pollution killed our river, and now it is killing us"

Blog entry by Tommy Crawford, Greenpeace International | March 23, 2012 2 comments

Pierre Terras is a Toxic Campaigner in Greenpeace Mexico , and was part of the team that travelled to El Salto de Juanacatlán waterfalls for World Water Day to raise awareness of the toxic pollution that is destroying the Río Santiago... Read more >

World Water Day

Slideshow | March 22, 2012

Dirty little secret

Video | March 22, 2012 at 10:00

Greenpeace activists and volunteers plastered cities around the world with posters covered with a special non-toxic ink that was washed away to reveal the fashion industry's dirty little secret. Consumers were then encouraged to take part in...

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