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Toxic trends

The high cost of fashion is not always in the price tag. Sometimes the latest make-up trend or the season's hottest colour conceals something ugly.

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People against pollution

Alice Bell reflects on what happens when communities help solve environmental problems, and whether citizen science can help fight industrial pollution today.

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Tracing the toxic story of tear gas

Investigating tear gas – from factory to Black Lives Matter protest – Imani Jacqueline Brown uncovers a toxic legacy where pollution, violence and racism are intimately entwined.

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The ugly truth about fast fashion

Aja Barber reflects on her relationship with fast fashion, outlines its polluting and destructive effects, and shares the small, personal changes we can make that could help.

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  • Toxic Tau
  • Toxic shock syndrome toxin
  • The importance of protective clothing when handling toxic substances in Ethiopia. Colour lithograph for the World Health Organisation, 2000.
  • The 'Allenburys' Milk-Foods : free, not only from harmful organisms, but from their toxic products : October 1906.
  • The 'Allenburys' Milk-Foods : free, not only from harmful organisms, but from their toxic products : June 1906.
  • Atoquinol (allyl phenylcinchoninester) : the most active eliminant of irritant or toxic acid waste without harmful action on digestive or other systems.
  • A man in protective clothing pouring a toxic substance: the importance of protective clothing in Ethiopia. Colour lithograph for the World Health Organisation, 2000.
  • A skull and cross bones representing a warning about the dangers of handling toxic substances in Ethiopia. Colour lithograph for the World Health Organisation, 2000.
  • Death as a lethal confectioner making up sweets using arsenic and plaster of Paris as ingredients; representing the toxic adulteration of sweets in the 1858 Bradford sweets poisoning. Wood engraving after J. Leech, 1858.
  • Phytin "(calcium magnesium salt of inositol hexaphosphoric acid) : a nerve food and general tonic containing about 22 per cent. of organically combined assimilable and non-toxic phosphorus : blotter no.2 / The Clayton Aniline Co. Ltd.
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