Blog: Toxics

Safer Chemicals within Reach: Using the substitution principle to drive green chemistry

Publication date: 
21 March, 2007

Publication date: updated March 2005

Summary
REACH Report prepared for the Greenpeace Environmental Trust By Clean Production Action

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Consuming Chemicals

Publication date: 
21 March, 2007

Hazardous chemicals in house dust as an indicator of chemical exposure in the home

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PVC-u or timber windows- Which is best?

Publication date: 
21 March, 2007

Your choice of window frames could seriously affect the health of our planet.

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Chemicals in Europe: from burden of the past to vision for the future

Publication date: 
21 March, 2007

Publication date: March 2003

Summary
Although the European Union remains one of the largest chemical producing regions of the world, we still know virtually nothing about the hazards posed by the vast majority of chemicals currently being manufactured and marketed, such as environmental persistence, toxicity and effects on human health.

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White Paper: Strategy for a future Chemicals Policy

Publication date: 
11 August, 2009

Commission of the European Communities

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The way forward out of the chemicals crisis

Publication date: 
21 March, 2007

An alternative, precautionary approach to the regulation of the manufacturing, marketing and use of chemicals in Europe

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What's wrong with PVC?

Publication date: 
21 March, 2007

The science behind a phase-out of polyvinyl chloride plastics

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Greenpeace chemical clean up

Publication date: 
21 March, 2007

Chemical crisis briefing

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Greenpeace submission to the PIU review of the Governments waste strategy

Publication date: 
11 August, 2009

Submission to the Governments Strategy Unit review of UK waste policy

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The Basingstoke incinerator - poisoning food, risking health

Publication date: 
21 March, 2007

Publication date: June 2002

Summary
The Basingstoke incinerator, which is due to completed in October, will burn ninety thousand tonnes of household rubbish every year. It is one of three currently under construction in Hampshire and will burn municipal waste from the north of the county. It is owned and will be operated by French waste disposal company Onyx.

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