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A ©Greenpeace Video, published on Youtube, October 24th 2013.
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Around the world a growing movement of people are using their creativity, design skills and purchasing power to demand fashion without pollution…
For more information or to find out how you can join the campaign visit: The Detox campaign, Greenpeace
View Original Article And Learn More, Greenpeace
Dirty Laundry: Greenpeace Reports on Toxic Industrial Water Pollution, Greenpeace (Uploaded 08-26-2011)
A report just released by Greenpeace International, after a year-long study research into industrial water pollution, reveals the presence of hazardous chemicals in clothing items bearing the logos of 14 global popular brands, linking many of the same clothing brands to suppliers in China who were found to be releasing daily cocktail of chemicals into the Pearl River and Yangtze River deltas, discharging into the China Sea…
Toxic Threads: Polluting Paradise A story of big brands and water pollution in Indonesia, Greenpeace (Uploaded 04-28-2013)
Greenpeace International investigations have revealed the dumping of industrial wastewater containing a cocktail of toxic and hazardous chemicals, and caustic water, directly into the Citarum River, West Java. International fashion brands are linked to this pollution…
Bangladesh Pollution, Told in Colors and Smells, The New York Times (Uploaded 07-21-2013)
Chinese Environment Official Challenged To Swim In Polluted River (Uploaded 02-21-2013)
Pollution for the Sake of Economic Growth, Science Daily, (Uploaded 04-28-2012)
Rapid economic growth will continue to be energy-intensive and highly polluting for the foreseeable future, adding to environmental harm on a global scale and having a tremendous impact on ecological systems, according to a study that looked at a decade’s worth of data from 30 Chinese provinces to build a comprehensive model of pollution.
Green Protests On The Rise In China, Nature Journal, (Uploaded 08-14-2012)
For years, people in China have accepted murky air, tainted waters and scarred landscapes as the unavoidable price of the country’s meteoric economic growth. But public dissent over environmental issues has been growing steadily…
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