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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The lights are on but there's nobody home at Britain's top nuclear facility

Feature story | January 13, 2003 at 7:00

When a large group of Greenpeace volunteers strolled into a nuclear power station under the early morning cover of darkness, you might expect they would meet some opposition. Shouldn't alarm bells being ringing loudly across the facility, guards...

Dow refuses to take back its waste

Feature story | January 7, 2003 at 7:00

Activists from the International Campaign for Justice in Bhopal wanted to give something back to Dow today: a few barrels of the waste the chemical giant refuses to clean up. Dow's response: arrests of over twenty activists.

Bhopal Disaster: 18 years later Dow still refuses to clean up its toxic mess

Feature story | December 2, 2002 at 7:00

Environmental group Greenpeace today brought soil and water, which are contaminated with toxic chemicals, from Bhopal to Dow Chemicals factory in Map Tha Phut Industrial Estate as part of a worldwide protest to challenge the world's biggest...

Bhopal Disaster: 18 years later Dow still refuses to clean up its toxic mess

Press release | December 2, 2002 at 8:00

Environmental group Greenpeace today brought soil and water, which are contaminated with toxic chemicals, from Bhopal to Dow Chemicals factory in Map Tha Phut Industrial Estate as part of a worldwide protest to challenge the world's biggest...

Bhopal cleanup team arrested

Feature story | November 25, 2002 at 7:00

Within a half hour of arriving on site to clean up Bhopal, around 60 protesters including local residents and Greenpeace activists were arrested. It was estimated that more than 100 police in riot gear swarmed over the peaceful action, which was...

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