Pure Earth Celebrates Twenty-Five Years of Solving Pollution
Jun 04 , 2024
Pure Earth Celebrates Twenty-Five Years of Solving Pollution Join us in taking a look at where we’ve been, and where we’re headed A lot has changed since Australian environmental engineer Richard Fuller founded Pure Earth in 1999, then called Blacksmith.
ReadA Toxic “Craft” Village in Vietnam Cleans Up (VIDEO)
Jul 29 , 2014
http://youtu.be/PBGDERL3t4o Every day, trucks full of used lead-acid batteries from cars, motorbikes and other vehicles are brought in from across Vietnam to the rural village of Dong Mai in the agricultural heartland of Vietnam. Dong Mai is one of thousands of toxic "craft".
ReadSoccer Field Transformed From Toxic Lead Dump To Safe Play Space
Jul 29 , 2014
[caption id="attachment_16187" align="alignnone" width="300"] This soccer field used to be highly contaminated with toxic lead. Children were being poisoned everyday.[/caption] In Cinangka, Indonesia, a playground near the primary school was so toxic that parts of the field had lead levels.
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