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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.

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Toxic Town

Slideshow | December 4, 2012

Detox Fashion

Video | November 29, 2012 at 9:57

TOXIC IS SO LAST SEASON. They say you can tell next season's hottest trend by looking at the colour of the rivers in Mexico and China. But it doesn't have to be this way. Around the world, hundreds of thousands of people are calling on brands to...

People! Zara commits to go toxic-free

Feature story | November 29, 2012 at 2:00

Zara, the world’s largest clothing retailer, today announced a commitment to go toxic-free following nine days of intense public pressure. This win belongs to the fashion-lovers, activists, bloggers and denizens of social media. This is people...

ZARA Mannequins Revolt

Video | November 26, 2012 at 19:13

As part of Greenpeace's global "Detox" campaign, more than 700 people, in over 80 cities, in 20 countries around the world protested, staged street theatre and conducted "mannequin" walk-outs to demand ZARA commit to eliminating the use of all...

Fashion without pollution. So hot right now.

Blog entry by Laura Kenyon, Greenpeace | November 26, 2012 4 comments

Were you thinking about Zara fashions for this season? Maybe these images will make you think twice. There's a good reason even the 'mannequins' are walking out of Zara's stores in protest. Zara has a toxic little secret ... and it's...

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