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'''Pure Earth''', formerly known as the '''Blacksmith Institute''' until on 10 March 2015, is a New York City-based international not-for-profit organization founded in 1999 that aims to identify and clean up pollution, focusing primarily on contaminated sites and [[soil contamination|soil]] in [[developing countries]]. Over the last decade it has cleaned up 84 sites in 20 countries,<ref name="businessweek.com">http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-09-15/the-chemical-weapons-ukrainian-separatists-didnt-get</ref> focusing on communities where children are most at risk. These communities suffer disproportionately from [[List of pollution-related diseases|pollution-related diseases]].
'''Pure Earth''', formerly known as the '''Blacksmith Institute''', is a New York City-based international not-for-profit organization founded in 1999 that works to identify, clean up, and solve pollution problems in low- and middle-income countries, where high concentrations of toxic pollution have devastating health impacts, especially on children. These communities suffer disproportionately from [[List of pollution-related diseases|pollution-related diseases]]. Pure Earth remains the only significant organization of its kind working to solve pollution on a global scale.


Pure Earth is known for leading the fight against global toxic pollution that affects human health with its various efforts, including the '''World's Worst Pollution Problems''' reports<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/1d4c0916-6156-11dc-bf25-0000779fd2ac.html|title=Planet’s most polluted sites unveiled|last=Harvey|first=Fiona|date=2007-09-12|work=[[The Financial Times]]}}</ref>; the '''Toxic Sites Identification Program''', the Pure Earth database of polluted sites, the Blacksmith Index (developed to assess polluted sites), the '''Global Alliance on Health and Pollution''', the '''Lancet Commission on Pollution and Health''', the '''[https://yourshotblog.nationalgeographic.com/post/155735704024/hashtag-challenge-tellyourpollutionstory-to Tell Your Pollution Story]''' project with [[National Geographic]], the '''[https://www.pureearth.org/blog/ Pollution Blog]''', the '''Journal of Health and Pollution''', and more.
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In 2014, Blacksmith launched a new initiative – ''Blacksmith Institute for a Pure Earth'' – with English actor [[Dev Patel]] as celebrity ambassador.<ref>http://www.indiawest.com/entertainment/global/dev-patel-launches-pure-earth-nontoxic-campaign/article_21aeab8b-508c-502c-ac97-fbcb3ab0de64.html</ref> Patel worked closely with Blacksmith to suggest the new name, and will help support efforts to raise awareness about toxic pollution, an issue he says he first grew aware of after filming in India.<ref>http://www.blacksmithinstitute.org/blog/qa-with-slumdog-millionaire-dev-patel-on-his-belated-birthday-present-a-pure-earth/</ref> Blacksmith will slowly transition to a new name – Pure Earth – with the aim of broadening awareness of global toxic pollution issues to the general public.


In 2015, Pure Earth helped to successfully advocate for broadening the scope of toxic pollution addressed in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.undispatch.com/meet-2015-er-richard-fuller/|title=MEET A 2015-ER: RICHARD FULLER|last=Sampathkumar|first=Mythili|date=April 8, 2015|work=Un Dispatch|access-date=}}</ref>
== History ==
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Pure Earth was founded as the Blacksmith Institute in 1999.


Pure Earth's global programs focus on two key issues it has identified as major pollution and health problems: [http://www.pureearth.org/global-lead-program/ reducing lead poisoning from the recycling of used lead-acid (car) batteries], and [http://www.pureearth.org/global-mercury-program/ reducing mercury poisoning from artisanal gold mining and leaded pottery.]
In 2010, Blacksmith founder [[Richard Fuller (environmentalist)|Richard Fuller]] was profiled in [[Time magazine|''Time'']]'s "Power of One" column.<ref>{{cite web|last=Walsh|first=Bryan|title=Power of One|url=http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,2024212,00.html|work=TIME Magazine|accessdate=21 November 2013|date=18 October 2010}}</ref> In 2011 Blacksmith received a Green Star Award for its work.<ref>{{cite web|title=Six UN-backed green awards handed out for work in disasters|url=https://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=38428&Cr=disaster&Cr1=risk|work=UN News Centre|accessdate=21 November 2013|date=18 May 2011}}</ref> In 2014, ''[[Bloomberg Businessweek]]'' chronicled Blacksmith/Pure Earth's growth and work around the world, including a dangerous cleanup of a secret Soviet arms site in Ukraine.<ref name="businessweek.com" />


Pure Earth's latest report is [https://www.pureearth.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/PE_PollutionKnowsNoBordersOnline.pdf Pollution Knows No Borders: How the Pollution Crisis in Low- and Middle-Income Countries Affects Everyone’s Health, and What We Can Do to Address It.]
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2015 saw the release of the book ''The Brown Agenda''.


Pure Earth has been recognized by [[Charity Navigator]] as one of the United States' top performing [[Nonprofit organization|nonprofits]].<ref>http://www.charitynavigator.org/index.cfm?bay=search.summary&orgid=11750#.VCG3by5dUTE</ref>
Pure Earth has been recognized by [[Charity Navigator]] as one of the United States' top performing [[Nonprofit organization|nonprofits]].<ref>http://www.charitynavigator.org/index.cfm?bay=search.summary&orgid=11750#.VCG3by5dUTE</ref>


== Pollution: Largest Environmental Cause of Death In The World Today ==
Blacksmith Institute/Pure Earth is known for its annual ''World's Worst Polluted Places Reports'', ''The Pollution Blog'', and the ''Blacksmith database'', which currently lists 600 polluted sites. This Polluted Places Initiative identifies polluted sites throughout the world by means of an online nomination process.<ref>{{cite news
In 2017, Pure Earth President [[Richard Fuller (environmentalist)|Richard Fuller]] and Dr. [[Philip J. Landrigan|Philip Landrigan]], serving as co-chairs of the [https://www.thelancet.com/commissions/pollution-and-health Lancet Commission on Pollution and Health], issued an [http://gahp.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/GAHP_OPEN-LETTER.pdf open letter], and presided over the release of the landmark report from the Commission, which confirmed that [http://gahp.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Sinai_Commission_on_Pollution_and_Health_Infographic_final_LETTERSIZE.pdf pollution is the largest environmental cause of disease and premature death in the world today]--causing 3x more deaths than HIV/AIDS, TB and malaria combined, and 15x more deaths than wars and all forms of violence.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=various authors|first=|date=October 19, 2017|title=The Lancet Commission on pollution and health|url=https://www.thelancet.com/commissions/pollution-and-health|journal=The Lancet|volume=Vol. 391, No. 10119|pages=|via=}}</ref>
| last= Harvey
| first= Fiona
| url= http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/1d4c0916-6156-11dc-bf25-0000779fd2ac.html
| title= Planet’s most polluted sites unveiled
| work= [[The Financial Times]]
| date= 2007-09-12
}}</ref>


The report's findings made headlines around the world. The [[The Washington Post|Washington Post]]'s editorial concluded that "The Lancet study should remind leaders in the United States and elsewhere that, though there are costs associated with restricting pollution, countries also incur costs by failing to do so." [[Fareed Zakaria]] issued a passionate commentary about [https://www.cnn.com/videos/tv/2017/11/08/exp-gps-1105-witw-pollution.cnn pollution's deadly global impact.]
Blacksmith is currently expanding their database with the ''Toxics Sites Identification Program'', formerly known as Global Inventory Project.<ref>{{cite web|title=Blacksmith Institute Leads International Partnership To Build World's First Global Inventory Of Polluted Sites|url=http://www.blacksmithinstitute.org/blacksmith-institute-to-lead-global-inventory-of-polluted-sites.html|work=Blacksmith Institute|accessdate=21 November 2013}}</ref>


Blacksmith/Pure Earth serves as Secretariat for the [[GAHP (Global Alliance on Health and Pollution)|Global Alliance on Health and Pollution]] (GAHP).<ref>{{cite web|title= A Global Alliance for a Toxics-Free World|url=http://theglobaljournal.net/article/view/988/}}</ref> In 2015, the GAHP launched the global Commission on Pollution, Health and Development. It is described as an "initiative of [[The Lancet]], the Global Alliance on Health and Pollution (GAHP), and the [[Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai]], with additional coordination and input from the [[United Nations Environment Programme]] and the [[World Bank]]."<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.commissiononpollution.org/|title=commission|website=commission|access-date=2016-08-15}}</ref> The Commission aims to quantify the health and economic costs of pollution to give global leaders and policy-makers the justification to act on pollution. The Commission report will be published in early 2017.
The Lancet Commission on Pollution and Health is an initiative of The Lancet, the Global Alliance on Health and Pollution (for which Pure Earth serves as Secretariat), and the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, with additional coordination and input from United Nations Environment, United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO), and the World Bank.


== Toxic Sites Identification Program ==
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==The GAHP (Global Alliance on Health and Pollution)==
Pure Earth's [https://www.pureearth.org/projects/toxic-sites-identification-program-tsip/ Toxic Site Identification Program] (TSIP) works to identify and screen contaminated sites in low- and middle-income countries where public health is at risk. Pure Earth has trained more than 400 toxic sites investigators around the world to find, map and assess polluted sites that pose health risks in their communities. To date, TSIP investigators have identified more than 3,100 sites in over 50 countries. These sites alone represent a potential health risk to more than 80 million poor people.
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In July 2012, Blacksmith convened a third meeting of world leaders<ref>{{cite web|title=Incubating Ideas for Change at the Bellagio Center|url=http://www.blacksmithinstitute.org/blog/?p=1025|work=Pollution Blog|publisher=Blacksmith Institute|accessdate=21 November 2013|date=18 April 2012}}</ref> and experts on pollution at the Rockefeller Foundation's Bellagio Center in Italy. The Global Alliance on Health and Pollution was formed that year by Pure Earth, the World Bank, UNEP, UNDP, UNIDO, Asian Development Bank, the European Commission, Ministries of Environment and Health of many low- and middle-income countries to address pollution and health at scale. Blacksmith serves as Secretariat for the [[GAHP (Global Alliance on Health and Pollution)|GAHP]]. Blacksmith began coordinating an international effort to create a global alliance in 2008. The effort was formerly called the Health and Pollution Fund.<ref>{{cite web|title=Health and Pollution Fund|url=http://www.hpfund.org/bp.php|accessdate=21 November 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Global Alliance on Health and Pollution|url=http://www.gahp.net/new/|accessdate=21 November 2013}}</ref><ref name=dolan>{{cite web|last=Dolan|first=David|title=Toxic hotspots affect 600 million in developing world|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/2009/05/05/us-development-pollution-interview-idUSTRE5442C520090505|work=Reuters|accessdate=21 November 2013|date=5 May 2009}}</ref>

The data collected by TSIP investigators is entered into Pure Earth's database of polluted sites, the largest database of its kind. This information is made accessible to governments so that they can formulate plans to prioritize action on pollution that poses the most risk to populations.

The public can view the data at [https://www.pollution.org/ pollution.org]

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==The Global Alliance on Health and Pollution (GAHP)==
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In July 2012, Pure Earth convened a third meeting of world leaders<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.blacksmithinstitute.org/blog/?p=1025|title=Incubating Ideas for Change at the Bellagio Center|date=18 April 2012|work=Pollution Blog|publisher=Blacksmith Institute|accessdate=21 November 2013}}</ref> and experts on pollution at the Rockefeller Foundation's Bellagio Center in Italy. The Global Alliance on Health and Pollution was formed that year by Pure Earth, the World Bank, UNEP, UNDP, UNIDO, Asian Development Bank, the European Commission, Ministries of Environment and Health of many low- and middle-income countries to address pollution and health at scale. Blacksmith serves as Secretariat for the [[GAHP (Global Alliance on Health and Pollution)|GAHP]]. Blacksmith began coordinating an international effort to create a global alliance in 2008. The effort was formerly called the Health and Pollution Fund.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.hpfund.org/bp.php|title=Health and Pollution Fund|accessdate=21 November 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.gahp.net/new/|title=Global Alliance on Health and Pollution|accessdate=21 November 2013}}</ref><ref name="dolan">{{cite web|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/2009/05/05/us-development-pollution-interview-idUSTRE5442C520090505|title=Toxic hotspots affect 600 million in developing world|last=Dolan|first=David|date=5 May 2009|work=Reuters|accessdate=21 November 2013}}</ref>

== The Journal Of Health and Pollution ==
Published by Pure Earth, the [http://www.journalhealthpollution.org/ Journal of Health and Pollution] (JH&P) is a quarterly on-line journal of peer reviewed research and news. JH&P is grant funded by the World Bank and the European Union. There are no charges to readers or authors. JH&P aims to facilitate discussion of toxic pollution, impacts to human health and strategies for site remediation. The journal focuses on work by researchers from or about under-represented low- and middle-income countries.

== Key Projects ==
In 2010, Pure Earth's impact was charted in a profile of its founder [[Richard Fuller (environmentalist)|Richard Fuller]] in [[Time magazine|''Time'']]'s "Power of One" column.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,2024212,00.html|title=Power of One|last=Walsh|first=Bryan|date=18 October 2010|work=TIME Magazine|accessdate=21 November 2013}}</ref>

In 2011, Blacksmith received a Green Star Award for its emergency work during the Nigeria lead poisoning crisis .<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=38428&Cr=disaster&Cr1=risk|title=Six UN-backed green awards handed out for work in disasters|date=18 May 2011|work=UN News Centre|accessdate=21 November 2013}}</ref>

In 2014, ''[[Bloomberg Businessweek]]'' chronicled Pure Earth's growth and work around the world, including a dangerous cleanup of a secret Soviet arms site in Ukraine.<ref name="businessweek.com">http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-09-15/the-chemical-weapons-ukrainian-separatists-didnt-get</ref>

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2015 saw the release of the book ''The Brown Agenda''.

== Name Change ==
⚫
Pure Earth was founded as the Blacksmith Institute in 1999.

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In 2014, Blacksmith launched a new initiative – ''Blacksmith Institute for a Pure Earth'' – with English actor [[Dev Patel]] as celebrity ambassador.<ref>http://www.indiawest.com/entertainment/global/dev-patel-launches-pure-earth-nontoxic-campaign/article_21aeab8b-508c-502c-ac97-fbcb3ab0de64.html</ref> Patel worked closely with Blacksmith to suggest the new name, and will help support efforts to raise awareness about toxic pollution, an issue he says he first grew aware of after filming in India.<ref>http://www.blacksmithinstitute.org/blog/qa-with-slumdog-millionaire-dev-patel-on-his-belated-birthday-present-a-pure-earth/</ref> Blacksmith will slowly transition to a new name – Pure Earth – with the aim of broadening awareness of global toxic pollution issues to the general public.


==World's Worst Polluted Places Reports==
==World's Worst Polluted Places Reports==
For over a decade, Pure Earth's World’s Worst Pollution Problems reports identified and drew attention to the worst, and most dangerously polluted places on the planet, while documenting and quantifying the startling health and environmental impacts of this neglected problem. The series of reports succeeded in raising global awareness about the extent and impacts of toxic pollution in low- and middle-income countries. All reports are archived at http://worstpolluted.org

=== 2016 report: The Toxics Beneath Our Feet (Top Polluting Industries) ===

* ULAB
* Mining and Ore Processing
* Lead Smelters
* Tanneries
* ASGM
* Industrial Dumpsites
* Industrial Estates
* Chemical Manufacturing
* Product Manufacturing
* Dye Industry

===2015 report: Top Six Toxic Threats===
===2015 report: Top Six Toxic Threats===
* [[Lead]]
* [[Lead]]
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* [[Magnitogorsk]], [[Russia]]
* [[Magnitogorsk]], [[Russia]]
* [[Rudnaya Pristan]], [[Russia]]
* [[Rudnaya Pristan]], [[Russia]]

The Institute has operated in China since 2002.<ref>{{cite web|title=NGO Directory|url=http://www.chinadevelopmentbrief.cn/?page_id=1027|work=China Development Brief|accessdate=21 November 2013}}</ref>

In its 2007 report, ''The World’s Worst Polluted Places'' issued on September 16, the Blacksmith Institute included [[Meycauayan]] and [[Marilao]] in [[Bulacan]], [[Philippines]], in the list of the world's thirty most [[polluted]] [[Location (geography)|places]] in the [[developing world]].<ref name=wp2007 /> It stated: "Industrial waste is haphazardly dumped into the Marilao, Meycauayan, and [[Obando, Bulacan|Obando]] River system, a source of drinking and agricultural water supplies for the 250,000 people living in and around” the Meycauayan-Marilao area."<ref>{{cite news|last=Espina|first=Nonoy|title=Meycauayan, Marilao in world’s ‘Dirty 30’-- report|url=http://globalnation.inquirer.net/news/news/view/20070917-89091/Meycauayan-Marilao-in-worlds-Dirty-30---report|accessdate=21 November 2013|newspaper=Inquirer|date=17 September 2007}}</ref>


==References==
==References==

Revision as of 18:54, 31 January 2019

Blacksmith Institute for a Pure Earth
Formation1999
TypeInternational NGO
Location
President
Richard Fuller
Websitewww.pureearth.org

Pure Earth, formerly known as the Blacksmith Institute, is a New York City-based international not-for-profit organization founded in 1999 that works to identify, clean up, and solve pollution problems in low- and middle-income countries, where high concentrations of toxic pollution have devastating health impacts, especially on children. These communities suffer disproportionately from pollution-related diseases. Pure Earth remains the only significant organization of its kind working to solve pollution on a global scale.

Pure Earth is known for leading the fight against global toxic pollution that affects human health with its various efforts, including the World's Worst Pollution Problems reports[1]; the Toxic Sites Identification Program, the Pure Earth database of polluted sites, the Blacksmith Index (developed to assess polluted sites), the Global Alliance on Health and Pollution, the Lancet Commission on Pollution and Health, the Tell Your Pollution Story project with National Geographic, the Pollution Blog, the Journal of Health and Pollution, and more.

In 2015, Pure Earth helped to successfully advocate for broadening the scope of toxic pollution addressed in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).[2]

Pure Earth's global programs focus on two key issues it has identified as major pollution and health problems: reducing lead poisoning from the recycling of used lead-acid (car) batteries, and reducing mercury poisoning from artisanal gold mining and leaded pottery.

Pure Earth's latest report is Pollution Knows No Borders: How the Pollution Crisis in Low- and Middle-Income Countries Affects Everyone’s Health, and What We Can Do to Address It.

Pure Earth has been recognized by Charity Navigator as one of the United States' top performing nonprofits.[3]

Pollution: Largest Environmental Cause of Death In The World Today

In 2017, Pure Earth President Richard Fuller and Dr. Philip Landrigan, serving as co-chairs of the Lancet Commission on Pollution and Health, issued an open letter, and presided over the release of the landmark report from the Commission, which confirmed that pollution is the largest environmental cause of disease and premature death in the world today--causing 3x more deaths than HIV/AIDS, TB and malaria combined, and 15x more deaths than wars and all forms of violence.[4]

The report's findings made headlines around the world. The Washington Post's editorial concluded that "The Lancet study should remind leaders in the United States and elsewhere that, though there are costs associated with restricting pollution, countries also incur costs by failing to do so." Fareed Zakaria issued a passionate commentary about pollution's deadly global impact.

The Lancet Commission on Pollution and Health is an initiative of The Lancet, the Global Alliance on Health and Pollution (for which Pure Earth serves as Secretariat), and the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, with additional coordination and input from United Nations Environment, United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO), and the World Bank.

Toxic Sites Identification Program

Pure Earth's Toxic Site Identification Program (TSIP) works to identify and screen contaminated sites in low- and middle-income countries where public health is at risk. Pure Earth has trained more than 400 toxic sites investigators around the world to find, map and assess polluted sites that pose health risks in their communities. To date, TSIP investigators have identified more than 3,100 sites in over 50 countries. These sites alone represent a potential health risk to more than 80 million poor people.

The data collected by TSIP investigators is entered into Pure Earth's database of polluted sites, the largest database of its kind. This information is made accessible to governments so that they can formulate plans to prioritize action on pollution that poses the most risk to populations.

The public can view the data at pollution.org

The Global Alliance on Health and Pollution (GAHP)

In July 2012, Pure Earth convened a third meeting of world leaders[5] and experts on pollution at the Rockefeller Foundation's Bellagio Center in Italy. The Global Alliance on Health and Pollution was formed that year by Pure Earth, the World Bank, UNEP, UNDP, UNIDO, Asian Development Bank, the European Commission, Ministries of Environment and Health of many low- and middle-income countries to address pollution and health at scale. Blacksmith serves as Secretariat for the GAHP. Blacksmith began coordinating an international effort to create a global alliance in 2008. The effort was formerly called the Health and Pollution Fund.[6][7][8]

The Journal Of Health and Pollution

Published by Pure Earth, the Journal of Health and Pollution (JH&P) is a quarterly on-line journal of peer reviewed research and news. JH&P is grant funded by the World Bank and the European Union. There are no charges to readers or authors. JH&P aims to facilitate discussion of toxic pollution, impacts to human health and strategies for site remediation. The journal focuses on work by researchers from or about under-represented low- and middle-income countries.

Key Projects

In 2010, Pure Earth's impact was charted in a profile of its founder Richard Fuller in Time's "Power of One" column.[9]

In 2011, Blacksmith received a Green Star Award for its emergency work during the Nigeria lead poisoning crisis .[10]

In 2014, Bloomberg Businessweek chronicled Pure Earth's growth and work around the world, including a dangerous cleanup of a secret Soviet arms site in Ukraine.[11]

2015 saw the release of the book The Brown Agenda.

Name Change

Pure Earth was founded as the Blacksmith Institute in 1999.

In 2014, Blacksmith launched a new initiative – Blacksmith Institute for a Pure Earth – with English actor Dev Patel as celebrity ambassador.[12] Patel worked closely with Blacksmith to suggest the new name, and will help support efforts to raise awareness about toxic pollution, an issue he says he first grew aware of after filming in India.[13] Blacksmith will slowly transition to a new name – Pure Earth – with the aim of broadening awareness of global toxic pollution issues to the general public.

World's Worst Polluted Places Reports

For over a decade, Pure Earth's World’s Worst Pollution Problems reports identified and drew attention to the worst, and most dangerously polluted places on the planet, while documenting and quantifying the startling health and environmental impacts of this neglected problem. The series of reports succeeded in raising global awareness about the extent and impacts of toxic pollution in low- and middle-income countries. All reports are archived at http://worstpolluted.org

2016 report: The Toxics Beneath Our Feet (Top Polluting Industries)

  • ULAB
  • Mining and Ore Processing
  • Lead Smelters
  • Tanneries
  • ASGM
  • Industrial Dumpsites
  • Industrial Estates
  • Chemical Manufacturing
  • Product Manufacturing
  • Dye Industry

2015 report: Top Six Toxic Threats

[14]

2014 report: Top Ten Countries Turning The Corner on Toxic Pollution

(Not ranked, listed by region.)

  • Ghana, Agbogbloshie
  • Senegal, Thiaroye Sur Mer
  • Peru
  • Uruguay, Montevideo
  • Mexico, Mexico City
  • Indonesia, Cinangka
  • Philippines, Marilao, Meycauayan and Obando River System
  • Vietnam, Dong Mai
  • Former Soviet Union
  • Kyrgyzstan, Mailuu-Suu
  • Also China, India and Madagascar[15]

2013 report: Top Ten Toxic Threats in 2013: Cleanup, Progress, and Ongoing Challenges

The World's Worst Polluted Places in 2013 (unranked):

(*included in the original 2006 or 2007 lists)

2012 report: The Top Ten Sources by Global Burden of Disease

2011 report: The Top Ten of the Toxic Twenty

Top Ten Worst Toxic Pollution Problems:

  • Artisanal Gold Mining – Mercury
  • Industrial Estates – Lead
  • Agricultural Production- Pesticides
  • Lead Smelting – Lead
  • Tannery Operation – Chromium
  • Mining and Ore Processing – Mercury
  • Mining and Ore Processing – Lead
  • Lead-Acid Battery Recycling – Lead
  • Naturally Occurring Arsenic in Ground Water – Arsenic
  • Pesticide Manufacturing and Storage – Pesticide

2010 report: Top Six Toxic Threats

The report identifies and quantifies the impacts of the most damaging toxic pollutants. The Top Six Toxic Threats are:[16]

  • Lead
  • Mercury
  • Chromium
  • Arsenic
  • Pesticides
  • Radionuclides

2009 report: 12 Cases of Cleanup and Success

The report lists 10 programs, unranked, as examples of successful efforts to reduce the toll of pollution on human health. It also includes two initiatives with worldwide impact.[17][18][19][20]

2008 report: Top Ten World's Worst Pollution Problems

  • Artisanal Gold Mining
  • Contaminated Surface Water
  • Indoor Air Pollution
  • Industrial Mining Activities
  • Groundwater Contamination
  • Metals Smelting and Processing
  • Radioactive Waste and Uranium Mining
  • Untreated Sewage
  • Urban Air Quality
  • Used Lead Acid Battery Recycling

2006 and 2007 reports: Top Ten World's Worst Polluted Places

As of September 2007, the Institute lists the following as the world's ten most polluted places (in alphabetical order by country):[21]

Also mentioned

References

  1. ^ Harvey, Fiona (2007-09-12). "Planet's most polluted sites unveiled". The Financial Times.
  2. ^ Sampathkumar, Mythili (April 8, 2015). "MEET A 2015-ER: RICHARD FULLER". Un Dispatch.
  3. ^ http://www.charitynavigator.org/index.cfm?bay=search.summary&orgid=11750#.VCG3by5dUTE
  4. ^ various authors (October 19, 2017). "The Lancet Commission on pollution and health". The Lancet. Vol. 391, No. 10119. {{cite journal}}: |volume= has extra text (help)
  5. ^ "Incubating Ideas for Change at the Bellagio Center". Pollution Blog. Blacksmith Institute. 18 April 2012. Retrieved 21 November 2013.
  6. ^ "Health and Pollution Fund". Retrieved 21 November 2013.
  7. ^ "Global Alliance on Health and Pollution". Retrieved 21 November 2013.
  8. ^ Dolan, David (5 May 2009). "Toxic hotspots affect 600 million in developing world". Reuters. Retrieved 21 November 2013.
  9. ^ Walsh, Bryan (18 October 2010). "Power of One". TIME Magazine. Retrieved 21 November 2013.
  10. ^ "Six UN-backed green awards handed out for work in disasters". UN News Centre. 18 May 2011. Retrieved 21 November 2013.
  11. ^ http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-09-15/the-chemical-weapons-ukrainian-separatists-didnt-get
  12. ^ http://www.indiawest.com/entertainment/global/dev-patel-launches-pure-earth-nontoxic-campaign/article_21aeab8b-508c-502c-ac97-fbcb3ab0de64.html
  13. ^ http://www.blacksmithinstitute.org/blog/qa-with-slumdog-millionaire-dev-patel-on-his-belated-birthday-present-a-pure-earth/
  14. ^ 2015 full report
  15. ^ 2014full report
  16. ^ "Worst Polluted". Retrieved 21 November 2013.
  17. ^ a b c d e Rudolf, John Collins (29 October 2009). "Report Notes Few Toxic Cleanup Successes". The New York Times. Retrieved 21 November 2013.
  18. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k Leahy, Stephen (29 October 2009). "A Dozen Countries Take on Toxic Pollution". North America Inter Press Service. Retrieved 21 November 2013.
  19. ^ Biello, David (29 October 2009). "Can the World's Most Polluted Places Ever Be Cleaned?". Scientific American. Retrieved 21 November 2013.
  20. ^ Frierson, Burton (28 October 2009). "Global pollution-fighters find scant success". Reuters. Retrieved 21 November 2013.
  21. ^ "Top 10 Most Polluted Places 2007". Worst Polluted. Retrieved 21 November 2013.
  22. ^ "12 Cases of Cleanup and Success 2009". Worst Polluted. Retrieved 21 November 2013.

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