Introduction


In 1998 Greenpeace initiated a global toxics tour with the aim to research, expose, bear witness and stop the toxic pollution of our rivers and oceans. Toxic discharges represents a major threat to the quality of our waters, health and environment at large. From Japan to Chile, Greenpeace activists have been bearing witness to damaging environmental practices and taking non-violent direct action against industries that are poisoning our environment.

For the final leg of the 'Toxic Free Future' tour, Greenpeace is returning to the Baltic, where the scale and spread of the global POPs problem was identified some thirty years ago. The tour will end in Stockholm as over 120 governments gather on 21st - 23rd May 2001 to sign the POPs treaty, or Stockholm Convention, as it will be named.

Research shows that, despite previous regional agreements to clean up pollution in the Baltic, the area is still a global toxic hotspot. The political commitment to eliminate toxic pollution is vital but industrial change does not occur through words alone. Now it is time for immediate action to stop industries producing and releasing toxic chemicals and to rid the world of toxic chemicals within a generation.

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What the tour has achieved
See our Global Tour summary page

Flash animation of the dangers of toxic pollution (requires flash 5)
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