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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.

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The toxic tale behind your clothing

Blog entry by Yifang Li | November 20, 2012 20 comments

What are you wearing today? Touch it. Go on. What does it feel like? Yes, you're touching a piece of clothing. You're touching a type of fabric. You're touching a fashion choice. And yet, there's more to it: You're also touching a...

Finland's biggest chemical catastrophe in history

Blog entry by Brian Fitzgerald | November 9, 2012 15 comments

Greenpeace Finland is bearing witness and taking samples at a toxic spill that began on Sunday in the north of the country. The Talvivaara metal mine, owned and operated by Talvivaara Mining Company plc, has been leaking water...

A campaign that touches us all

Blog entry by Q'orianka Kilcher | November 8, 2012

You're going out. First thing you do is decide what to wear, right? You decide on your look, you check in the mirror, (maybe change and check in the mirror and again a few times...) and then you're ready. We do the same when we're...

The cost to our water for some protection from the rain

Blog entry by Kirsten Brodde | October 29, 2012 6 comments

Outdoor clothing brands often like to present a very flattering image of themselves as environmentally friendly, with many of their advertisements littered with references to nature and the great outdoors. Yet this industry is still a...

Full marks for Marks & Spencer

Blog entry by Martin Besieux | October 24, 2012 4 comments

Encouraging a fashion behemoth to change the way it produces clothing is no small task. But armed with the facts and the collective power of supporters like you, we are able to achieve the sort of success story we are announcing today.

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