The activists, wearing protective suits, collected samples of sediments from the canal and floated a buoy with the sign “Danger: Toxic”. On the bridge crossing Samrong Canal, volunteers displayed signs listing the toxic chemical contents of the...
“Greenpeace is putting the spotlight on Samrong canal to show the dismal failure of current pollution control measures in protecting Thailand’s water resources. The level of heavy metals contained in the sediments confirms that these chemicals...
Greenpeace show their opposition to the pollution caused by the Common Effluent Treatment Plant (CETP) in Vapi Industrial Estate, Golden Corridor, Gujarat, India.
01 April 2009 - Henan Province, China. Zhang Qiaoliang and his wife Su Yunxia share a happy moment during Su Yunxia’s pregnancy. Zhang Qiaoliang, 25 years old, died of throat cancer just before the birth of his child, shortly after this photo was...
A high-end housing development called Vanke Golden Banks is visible on the other side of the Fenghua, which is hardly ever "golden" these days. Often it is red or black, depending on the waste water.
Greenpeace Water Patrol activists today called attention to the shocking extent of industrial pollution in Chao Phraya River’s Samrong canal located in an industrial district in Samutprakan province, 40 kilometres south of Bangkok, and warned...
The Greenpeace Water Patrol has zero-ed in on Samrong canal as one example amongst the many factory-lined canals of Chao Phraya whose waters have become unsafe and unusable for the communities that live around it. There are more than 242...
Last month, Greenpeace revealed in a study that water samples collected from Samrong canal contained nonyl phenols, 2-Naphthalenamine and tri-iso-butyl phosphate (TiBP), the toxic chemicals used in the textile industry. The study also revealed...
Greenpeace is demanding that the government stem this toxic overload by instituting a chemical disclosure system that is accessible to the public, and by bringing an end to the discharge of harmful effluents by factories into the environment...
Cloth at Guotai Dyeing Factory (called the Well Dying Factory Limited in English).
A Greenpeace campaigner takes a sample of yellow-coloured waste water from the discharge pipe at the Youngor Textiles Factory.
This boy is working with his parents at a small jeans workshop in Dadun Village in Xintang. He earns 0.15 yuan for snipping loose thread ends off one pair of jeans; in one day he can do about 200 pairs.
The film tells the story of 13 year old Suwimon Daengniam and 59 year old Wali Pejarean who both live along the Samrong Canal, one of the major canals that flows in to the Chao Phraya River in Thailand. Through their stories we begin to...
Watch the campaign background video to see how we follow the toxic trail: from the pollution at the pipe, to factories that make our clothes, to the international clothing brands that have the power to change the system and Detox our future
Flashmobs in 29 cities, all at once! More than 600 people danced and stripped outside Adidas and Nike stores in 29 cities in 10 countries for Greenpeace's Detox Campaign to challenge the sportswear leaders to eliminate hazardous chemical releases...
A firefighter talks about how weather is changing in California as a result of climate change. Drier landscapes and more dry lightning mean more fires.
Clean freshwater is one of our most precious and most threatened natural resources. In China, for example, as much as 70% of rivers, lakes and reservoirs are polluted. Many chemicals released from textile factories threaten human health and the...
Melting permafrost affects the indigenous nomadic Nenets people and adds to climate change as decomposion of defrosting soil releases masses of methane and carbon dioxide.
10 August 2010 - Thailand. Greenpeace Water Patrol activists, wearing protective suits, collect samples of sediments from Samrong canal, which is located in an industrial district in Samutprakan province, 40 kilometres south of Bangkok. The...
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