Some WEN successes:

• Organising Real Nappy Week, to raise awareness about the environmental impact of disposables and promote real cloth nappies. The week celebrated it's tenth anniversary in 2006 when a record 905 supporters signed up to back the event, including over 90 percent of all UK local authorities and 155 MPs, MSPs, MEPs and Welsh AMs.
• Putting the issue of potentially harmful chemicals in cosmetics and toiletries firmly on the public agenda
• Persuading manufacturers to reduce chlorine bleaching in nappies and sanitary protection, which had lasting impact across the paper products industry.
• Exposing measurable levels of the pesticide lindane in chocolate. Major companies revised their purchasing policies and the Ministry of Agriculture Fisheries and Food now regularly test chocolate for pesticide residue. WEN was a founder of the wider successful campaign to ban lindane.
• Wrapping is a Rip Off empowered women to protest about excess packaging and persuaded major supermarkets to rethink their packaging strategies.
• Campaigning for greater awareness of Toxic Shock Syndrome, a rare but serious illness that can be fatal. The campaign led to better labelling on tampon packets.
• Initiating The Waste Minimisation Act 1998 which gives local authorities power to introduce waste reducing measures and promote waste preventing ideas.
• Putting Breast Cancer on the Map, involving women across the country in mapping breast cancer incidence and local sources of environmental pollution which they thought adversely affected the incidence rates in their area.
• Developing Taste of a Better Future network, a multicultural network of local food-growing groups which now boasts its own on-line directory.