Eliminate toxic chemicals

form:http://www.greenpeace.org/international/campaigns/toxics

Unborn babies are exposed in the womb to synthetic chemicals.

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.

Solving the chemicals crisis

Substituting hazardous chemicals with safer materials is the answer to governments and industry that have failed to control the spread of dangerous chemicals around the globe.

The good news is that we now have a chance to win a global precedent, starting in Europe, which will require companies to phase out and substitute the most toxic chemicals with safer alternatives.

Toxic trade

Stricter environmental regulations in developed countries have led to many polluting industries transferring their toxic technologies to the developing world. We are fighting to ensure an end of toxic trade to regions of the world least equipped to deal with inevitable pollution and accidents, such as the Bhopal disaster in India, and shipbreaking in Asia.

PVC

Despite its many alternatives, Polyvinyl Chloride (PVC) is one of the most widely used plastics. Unfortunately, its production, use and disposal create toxic pollution.

Incineration

The amount of waste produced by humans is increasing. Therefore strong political and industrial measures are urgently needed to change this trend. Incineration is not the solution but part of the problem.