Conversation for Empowerment in Ending World Hunger

This group is an invitation to explore the existing discourse on empowerment in efforts to end world hunger. We will tie together organizations and social media activity that focus work and ideas from within a paradigm of empowerment and establishing self-reliance, as compared to a discourse of charity. The intent is to distinguish and expand the empowerment ...learn more

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Toxic and Hazardous Substances

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Hazardous substances are polluting materials and wastes that are harmful to public health and to the environment, and are toxic, corrosive, ignitable, explosive, or chemically reactive.

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chemicals, pollution, hazardous, waste, materials, contamination, safety, health, cleanup, incineration, burning, reduction, biomagnification, pollutant, lead, mercury, dioxin, PCB, PVC, plastic, waste, toxicity, disposal, pollutants, solid waste, medical waste, spill, environmental impact, health impact, treatment, use, persistence, industrial pollution, toxic waste, chemical, illegal trade, dumping

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The Toxic Links Coalition is a growing alliance of community groups, women with cancer and cancer survivors, health care and environmental justice organizations, silicone survivors, women with endometriosis, and other reproductive disorders, and concerned individuals working together to educate our communities about the links between environmental toxins and the decline in public health.

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