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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Incinerators in Thailand

Publication | September 1, 2001 at 8:00

A profile of two incinerators in Thailand, the Phuket and Koh Samui incinerators.

Heavy metals and other contaminants in bottom ash and fly ash generated by...

Publication | September 1, 2001 at 8:00

In June and October 1999, Greenpeace International visited the municipal and medical waste incinerator complex near Phuket, Thailand, both in order to collect samples of incinerator ashes stored on site for chemical analysis. This reports reveals...

Wasting and Recycling in Metro Manila

Publication | September 1, 2001 at 8:00

A report offering an outline of a solid waste management strategy for Metropolitan Manila. This strategy places precedence on disposal reduction through waste reduction, reuse, recycling, and composting.

Common Effluent Treatment Plants Don't Work

Publication | August 14, 2001 at 8:00

The following report poses questions and answers to expose why CETPs do not work. They also make an argument for stopping all further investments in this ineffective technology and focus instead on real solution that take us on the path to clean...

lndustrial Pollution in Pasig River

Publication | July 18, 2001 at 8:00

In September 1999, Greenpeace collected wastewater and sediment samples from and around the effluent outlets of two factories – Chemphil and Republic Asahi. The samples were analyzed at the Greenpeace Research Laboratories at the University of...

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