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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

 

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...

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.

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...

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...

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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