Eliminating toxic chemicals

Toxics threaten our water, air, land, oceans - and our future.

Synthetic chemicals put the global health of humanity and the environment at risk, as the world's industries fail to research the potential impacts on our planet.

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Detox: which big sports brands will ditch toxic polluters first?

Nike & Adidas: time to Detox the world’s water

Game on, Nike and Adidas. Greenpeace is calling you out to see which one of you is stronger on the flats, quicker on the breaks, turns faster and plays harder...
Posted by louise - 13 July, 2011 - 12:25
A boy walks barefoot in the wastewater discharge of a fabric dyeing factory in G

Hidden Consequences: The unseen price of water pollution

Martin Hojsik, leader of the Toxics Water Pollution Project at Greenpeace International, writes on the concealed costs of pollution - on people, planet and...
Posted by Gemma Freeman - 26 May, 2011 - 15:07
Toxic toys: tests in China reveal hazardous chemicals

Tests find ‘gender-bending’ chemicals in toxic toys

China: a land of vast expanses, the largest population of any on the planet and, increasingly, an economic super-power rivaling that of the United States. It’s...
Posted by Tamara Stark - 20 May, 2011 - 13:30
Scientist Charles Messing in Dry Tortugas National Park, Florida, Gulf of Mexico

Deepwater Horizon - One Year On

Thursday marked the one year anniversary of the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill disaster. 11 rig workers were killed and 16 injured in the initial explosion....
Posted by Gemma Freeman - 21 April, 2011 - 17:25
The BP Oil Spill: One Year Later -  a video on the US report

The BP Oil Spill: One Year Later - a video on the US report

Yesterday marked one year since BP's Deepwater Horizon explosion, what Obama called "the worst environmental disaster the US has ever faced". Greenpeace...
Posted by Gemma Freeman - 21 April, 2011 - 09:25

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