Mind the Gap

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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Silent Witnesses to the Toxic Truth

Video | December 20, 2012 at 11:00

The Qiantang River in coastal Zhejiang Province is an area where more than one third of China's dyeing and printing takes place in an attempt to quench the insatiable global thirst for fast-fashion. Toxic water pollution is not a new story in...

A Leap Of Life

Slideshow | December 13, 2012

Levi's shapes up to become a Detox leader

Feature story | December 13, 2012 at 13:10

Levi Strauss & Co. today committed to go toxic-free. Why? Because you and hundreds of thousands of other people demanded that Levi’s “Go Forth and Detox”.

Detox At Levi's Headquarters

Image | December 13, 2012 at 0:07

Activists in the USA create a 'river' out of non-toxic foam and protest with placards outside the Levi's headquarters in San Francisco. To demand Levi's commit to a toxic free future.

Gael Garcia Bernal: Detox our Water!

Video | December 12, 2012 at 9:36

Gael Garcia Bernal, Mexican filmstar and director, invites you to join our Detox campaign.

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