Dove, Lipton Tea and Magnum -- the multi-billion company behind these products is responsible for the mercury poisoning in a beautiful hill town in India. And it’s refusing to properly clean up it’s toxic mess.
In 2001, we were horrified to learn that factory workers had been made ill, and forests and lakes contaminated by illegally dumped quicksilver from a Unilever thermometer factory.
The deadly neurotoxins that soaked in the soil at Kodaikanal town are still there leaking slowly into the watershed forests nearby, even as you’re reading this. And Unilever’s half-baked attempts to clean up the contamination -- which would never pass muster in Europe -- may have only made things worse.