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.

Greener Electronics

The world is consuming more and more electronic products every year.This has caused a dangerous explosion in electronic scrap (e-waste) containing toxic chemicals and heavy metals that cannot be disposed ofor recycled safely. But this problem can be avoided. We are pressing leading electronic companies for change to turn back the toxic tide of e-waste. Know more

Project clean water

Water is central to our lives but it is also the world's most threatened essential resource. Some of the worst inddustrial pollution is contaminating the world's most vulnerable water resources.               Know more

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Right-to-know Water Patrol Expedition launch

Blog entry by Jenny Tuazon | September 14, 2012

For the first time, Water Patrol runs an expedition starting from a heavily polluted river in Metro Manila, the Marikina River. This expedition travels 85 kilometers for 3 weeks this September aiming to examine and document sources...

Greenpeace calls for full public disclosure on chemical discharges from factories

Press release | September 13, 2012 at 18:33

“We have the right to know what’s in our water!” Greenpeace today demanded at the launch of the 3-week “Right-to-Know” Water Patrol Expedition along Marikina River. The expedition, which travels for 85 kilometers for three weeks, will examine and...

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Pollution should not be a secret

Blog entry by Chuck Baclagon | September 13, 2012 1 comment

Garbage that’s floating on our rivers and lakes is almost common sight in Metro Manila, and it's also fair to say that a lot of effort is presently being done by the government, the business sector and the many environmental and...

Water Patrol visits Marilao and Daraitan Rivers

Blog entry by Haydee Illenberger | May 29, 2012

Last April, together with the volunteer facilitators, Beau, our Toxics Campaigner, and I completed a 3-day Water Patrol Workshop for youth leaders in Marikina. The workshop is meant to orient Filipino youth leaders about the...

PNoy failing on the environmental front : Greenpeace

Press release | April 22, 2012 at 23:25

As the world observes this year’s annual Earth Day celebration, Greenpeace lamented the failing performance of the Aquino administration on the environmental front, citing the last two years under President Aquino’s leadership as a period ...

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