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Conceding to the demands of citizens groups and Greenpeace, the Anglo-Dutch multinational Unilever has agreed to permanently close its polluting mercury thermometer factory in India, the largest in the world. The company has also agreed to undertake a clean-up of 5.3 tons of mercury wastes it illegally dumped at a local scrapyard, but it is still refusing to accept that local people and workers at the factory in Kodiakanal may have been exposed to the highly toxic metal.

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Edmonton Refuse Incinerator - the facts

Last edited 29 May 2001 at 8:00am

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21 May, 2001

On the 13th April 1999 the Environment Agency wrote with regard to the persistent hydrogen chloride breaches and asked why the plant's authorisation should not be amended to exclude PVC (which London Waste had identified as the cause of many HCl breaches). The reply was not on the public register when Greenpeace viewed it.

In December 2000 London Waste Ltd. commissioned REC Ltd. to monitor some of the pollutants emitted from its stack. They found that emissions of oxides of nitrogen from the chimney were above the authorised limit for 25 of the 26 hours monitored.

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Edmonton Refuse Incinerator - the facts

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PVC alternatives database

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Lever, clean up, don't cover up

Last edited 12 March 2001 at 9:00am

12 March, 2001

Mumbai/Chennai, 09 March, 2001

Palni Hills Conservation Council, United Citizens Council of Kodaikanal, Greenpeace and New Delhi-based Toxics Link have dismissed as an "insensitive PR exercise" Hindustan Lever's official response of temporarily suspending production at their polluting mercury thermometer factory in Kodaikanal. The groups were responding to HLL's attempt to "cover up" their environmental crime by saying that there was a "remote chance" that mercury-containing broken thermometers may have left the factory and attributing it to a possible "human error."

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Greenpeace accuses Unilever of negligence over mercury poisoning of Indian tourist resort

Last edited 7 March 2001 at 9:00am

7 March, 2001

Kodaikanal, India, March 7 2001, Greenpeace today accused Anglo-Dutch multinational Unilever, owners of Lipton Tea and Dove soap, of double standards and shameful negligence for allowing its Indian subsidiary, Hindustan Lever, to dump several tonnes of highly toxic mercury waste in the densely populated tourist resort of Kodaikanal and the surrounding protected nature reserve of Pambar Shola, in Tamilnadu, Southern India.