CAMPAIGNS

CAMPAIGNS ON PLASTICS and PVC:

Victoria's Secret is Out! Company will soon be PVC-free. 27 February 2002

Letter to Martha Stewart asking her to go PVC free (You can print, sign and send)

Activists Target Plastic Maker Environmental health watchdog groups host public forum on potential pollution impacts from Keysor Co. 8/15/2002

Resist the Construction of a PVC facility in Cuddalore, India. (July 2002)

ZERO WASTE CAMPAIGNS:

Grass Roots Recycling Network Plastic Beverage Container Campaign: An important campaign urging Coke, Pepsi and other barons of plastic waste to really recycle their bottles.

ZERO WASTE: Campaign of the Grass Roots Recycling Network www.grrn.org

National (US) Beverage Producer Responsibility Act, Campaign of the Grass Roots Recycling Network

ELECTRONIC WASTE:

Please Take Back My Computer

Ask the US EPA to improve electronic waste policy: EPA's proposed CRT rule for Hazardous Electronics Waste management falls far short of stated goals and will likely increase e-waste export and dirty recycling and dumping of pollutants in Asian countries. Further, it fails to address improper e-waste disposal by individual consumers.

INCINERATION:

STOP Hazardous Waste Incinerator in Canada! We write to seek your urgent support to defeat the proposal of Bennett Environmental Inc. to site a hazardous waste incinerator in a residential area in Kirkland Lake, Ontario, Canada. Your immediate action will help foil the plan to turn the Temiskaming district into a toxic dumping and burning ground of dioxin-contaminated materials. According to company sources, 90% of the waste will come from outside Canada. Please act immediately – before 1 July 2002. The proposal is scheduled to be passed within the next few weeks.

POISON FACTORIES OF THE WORLD BANK, In the last few years alone, the World Bank Group has funded incineration projects in at least 65 countries. Incinerators for medical and municipal waste have been linked to severe public health threats and pollution in the United States, Europe and Asia. The combination of intense public opposition to incinerators and increasingly strict regulation has forced the closure or cancellation of thousands of incinerators in industrialized countries. Incinerators are fast becoming an obsolete technology as hospitals and cities are moving towards safer and more economical alternative approaches to waste management.

Global Day of Action Against Incineration (2002) It is time to show the incinerator industry what the global community thinks of their polluting technology.