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Greenpeace to swap boats for hoovers, to clean up chemicals in our homes

Last edited 18 October 2002 at 8:00am
18 October, 2002

Volunteers needed across the UK to help the campaign - call today!

On Wednesday 30th October the environmental group Greenpeace will be swapping its high speed rigid inflatable boats for vacuum cleaners and will set off to clean 100 homes across the UK

Article tagged as: chemicals, homes, press releases, toxics

International fugitive and Bhopal boss blamed for 20,000 deaths tracked down in the US

Last edited 29 August 2002 at 8:00am
29 August, 2002

Greenpeace today called on the U.S. State Department to arrest and extradite international fugitive and Bhopal corporate criminal Warren Anderson, after he was found by a UK newspaper and Greenpeace living a life of luxury in New York State. Anderson, the former Chief Executive Officer of Union Carbide, has been hiding in the United States since an explosion at his company's plant in Bhopal, India, caused the worst industrial disaster in history in December 1984.

Article tagged as: bhopal, chemicals, press releases, toxics

Exposure: the human cost of corporate crimes in Bhopal, portrayed in a photographic exhibition

Last edited 13 August 2002 at 8:00am
13 August, 2002

Exposure: the human cost of corporate crimes in Bhopal

Greenpeace has launched a touring exhibition of photographs of Bhopal by world renowned Magnum photographer, Raghu Rai (1).

'Exposure: portrait of a corporate crime' offers a unique insight into the human and environmental tragedy that has engulfed the Indian city since December 1984, when an explosion at Union Carbide s pesticide plant released lethal gases into the city, causing the world's worst industrial disaster.

Article tagged as: bhopal, chemicals, exhibitions, press releases, toxics

Israeli ministry plans to poison Haifa Bay

Last edited 23 July 2002 at 8:00am
23 July, 2002

Greenpeace scientific report exposes a serious threat

A scientific report published by Greenpeace Mediterranean today shows that official plans to build a pipe by-passing the Kishon River in northern Israel will cause the Haifa Bay area to be poisoned by toxic chemicals.

Article tagged as: chemicals, press releases, science

Dangerous dioxins - the facts

Last edited 17 June 2002 at 8:00am
Publication date: 
21 March, 2007

Publication date: June 2002

Summary
Dioxins are a family of chemicals with similar structures and properties. Dioxins are known to cause a wide range of toxic effects in animals, some of which occur at very low doses.

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Article tagged as: chemicals, health impacts, reports, toxics

The Basingstoke incinerator - poisoning food, risking health

Last edited 17 June 2002 at 8:00am
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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Article tagged as: basingstoke, chemicals, incineration, reports, waste

Zero waste

Last edited 18 March 2002 at 9:00am
Publication date: 
27 March, 2002

The UK is in the middle of a waste crisis. New European legislation has spelt the beginning of the end for the polluting and unpopular practice of land-filling our rubbish. This has created a stampede by local authorities for incinerators, which are also hugely unpopular with the public and produce a range of toxic and cancer-causing chemicals.

However, a totally new way of looking at waste is emerging that removes the need to burn or bury our rubbish; Zero Waste.

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Article tagged as: chemicals, incineration, land-fill, reports, zero waste

What happened in Bhopal?

Last edited 7 November 2001 at 9:00am
Bhopal

Bhopal

20,000 dead. 150,000 survivors chronically ill. Communities still drinking contaminated groundwater 18 years later - because Dow has not yet cleaned up the dangerous chemicals Union Carbide left behind....

Between 1977 and 1984, Union Carbide India Limited (UCIL), located within a crowded working class neighbourhood in Bhopal, was licensed by the Madhya Pradesh Government to manufacture phosgene, monomethylamine (MMA), methylisocyanate (MIC) and the pesticide carbaryl, also known as Sevin.

Article tagged as: bhopal, chemicals, india, toxics, union carbide

Persistent Organic Pollutants

Last edited 7 November 2001 at 9:00am
Dioxin waste

Dioxin waste

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Food, the environment and Genetically Modified Organisms

Last edited 23 October 2001 at 8:00am
Publication date: 
30 March, 2000

Current intensive farming practices rely on the use of artificial chemicals and, unlike organic farming methods, inflict significant environmental damage. Genetic engineering represents an escalation of these intensive farming practices. It threatens the environment and potentially human health and will contaminate non-GM and organic crops.

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Article tagged as: agriculture, chemicals, GM crops, reports