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Photos taken during the filming of the waste pickers documentary at Nairobi’s Dandora dumpsite.

Ending plastic pollution in Africa: a matter of justice for African women and communities

In Nairobi’s Dandora dumpsite, Joyce, a young mother rises each day not to farm her land or build her dream, but to scavenge through plastic waste to sell and feed…

02/07/2025

Greenpeace France protesters erect a giant billboard outside TotalEnergies' headquarters accusing them of fueling climate change, during the annual profit announcements by the world’s largest international oil companies season.

The billboard, which features an image of Patrick Pouyané, TotalEnergies' CEO, in a retouched image, contrasted with local resident during floodings in France and the slogan “Our profit, your loss”.

TotalEnergies in court: a landmark trial on greenwashing

On 5 June 2025, TotalEnergies appeared before a court for the first time to answer for the credibility of its climate commitments. This landmark legal action, brought by Friends of…

11/06/2025

Banners read "Arla your methane cooks the climate" and "Less methane less climate chaos".
Greenpeace Nordic activists protest at Arla's dairy in Stockholm, the largest of its kind in Sweden. The protest is to bring attention to the Arla’s methane emissions and responsibility in contributing to the climate crisis.

The protest is part of a global pressure with similar actions against a number of the 29 big, global meat and dairy corporations being critisised in a new Greenpeace Nordic report, for putting the climate at risk.

Greenpeace accuses global dairy giants of greenwashing and climate deception

Greenpeace Denmark is taking legal action against one of the world’s largest dairy producers for misleading consumers through deceptive climate reporting.

04/06/2025

The fashion industry has a massive plastic problem that it outsources to countries in the Global South, where textile waste pollutes the environment. Ghana is one of the world's largest consumers of second-hand textiles. A good 120,000 tonnes of second-hand clothing from Asia, North America and Europe end up in the West African country every year. More than half of the clothing is inferior disposable goods with no resale value - much of it is made of plastic.

On a research trip to Accra, a team from Greenpeace Africa and Greenpeace Germany used infrared scanners to examine discarded clothing at landfill sites and identify the various fibres. The result: almost nine out of ten items of clothing (89 per cent) contain synthetic fibres made from fossil fuels. After the garments are thrown away, these synthetic fibres decompose into microplastics. In the tested clothing from the Kantamanto market - the largest second-hand textile market in West Africa - the figure is as high as 96 per cent.

Greenpeace also analysed the air quality in three wash houses in Accra where textile waste is incinerated. The results show that the air is heavily polluted with hazardous chemicals, many of which are single or multiple carcinogens, mutagens and toxic to reproduction.

As part of a return-to-sender campaign, Greenpeace shipped textile waste back to Germany in a container designed by Ghanaian artists in order to take further samples and raise awareness about the destructive side of fast fashion.

Overconsumption in the textile industry and the massive use of synthetic plastic fibres and blended fabrics are causing devastating environmental damage and threatening nature and people in the Global South.

In the picture: Greenpeace banner at Jamestown, a fishery town in Accra where textile waste is washed into the sea

4 reasons why fast fashion will never be green

Fast fashion brands flood the market with cheap, trendy clothing at an unsustainable rate, creating enormous environmental and social harm. Despite their attempts at greenwashing; their business model is fundamentally…

17/03/2025

Greenpeace Africa volunteer with a sign reading "Strong Global Plastics Treaty Now!" at the heart of the Dandora dumpsite. As vast stretches of land are swallowed by discarded plastics, it underscores the urgency of our call: a reduction in plastic production by 75%.

Plastic design changes: a greenwashing tactic

The amount of plastics produced and flowing into the environment has reached crisis point, with approximately 400 million tonnes of plastics produced every year and set to triple by 2060.

26/02/2025

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