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 Mountain Of Success in Agbogbloshie
Dec 28 , 2016
A mountain of success! Pure Earth partner GreenAd's Bennett Akuffo is shown here standing on a pile of cleanly processed plastic cable casings in Agbogbloshie, Ghana. This is what would have been burnt, releasing polluting toxic fumes, if local recyclers.
ReadIntroducing Molly Bair: Superstar Model, Pollution Fighter!
Dec 16 , 2016
After a quick lesson at Pure Earth's office, Molly shows off her skills with the XRF--a handheld X-ray fluorescent analyzer that can identify toxic particles in soil in about 30 seconds! #FightPollution with Molly Bair When you see model Molly.
ReadGetting Lead Out Of Sovetskoe (Kan), Kyrgyzstan
Dec 05 , 2016
This post comes from Alena Temnikova, Pure Earth's regional coordinator in Kyrgyzstan. The red wall of the building is made from lead-contaminated sand taken from the mine tailings. When lead and zinc ore mining began in the 1950s, the first workers lived.
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