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Today is the first day we were meant to see 'enhanced verification' of tyres shipped from the UK to India. Typically, we would see 40 or so a day. Today, we saw ... 0!
Our Founder has more >>> www.linkedin.com/posts/georgi...
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@fightingdirty.bsky.social we lost our court case on sewage sludge spreading, but now we're winning by other means.
It's crazy that it took so long, but shows that persistence pays. Please support FD if you can. Thanks.
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Delighted to have left X. In the words of a great philosopher, "ain't nobody got time for that".
Our Founder, @georgiaes.bsky.social "The fate of toxic liquids oozing out of old landfill sites is an enormous dirty secret between landfill owners, the EA, and water companies.” in today's Guardian >>> www.theguardian.com/environment/...
NEW (and shocking): Our FOI request shows AGC Chemicals Europe, which is located near Blackpool, is still producing products containing PFOA and is releasing it to the air. www.endsreport.com/article/1932...
Huge hat tip to our friends at @riveractionuk.bsky.social and Hugh for illustrating the issues here so clearly.
If you're not already following @riveractionuk.bsky.social do now - they're campaign on #sewagesludge is taking our concerns on the subject to the heart of government!
Inaction isn't an option 👇
“Every day of inaction locks in decades of pollution and environmental harm … we’re asking the UK government to turn off the tap of these persistent forever chemicals.” @fidrango.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/environment/...
We have such an odd view of what's natural. We look out over miles of farmers' fields and see 'nature' when we're actually looking at an industrial landscape, as polluted and non-biodiverse as a trading estate.
I've just returned from wild camping in the Lake District - it's overrun with sheep and the hills and valleys are stripped bare. Nothing can survive except impenetrable blankets of bracken. I wonder what diversity could flourish if any other plant life existed.
UPDATE: The Environment Agency has told us that their review of their regulatory position for waste tyre exports (more on this here fightingdirty.org/major-victor...) will now be published on the 31st July - more than a month after they were originally aiming to.
Watch this space.
Thank you for everything you do, Steve
We forced a govt investigation into illegal waste tyre export trade, and got ministers to finally pay attention to toxic sewage sludge entering our food. But we can't do this without YOU! Please share, subscribe, or buy us a virtual coffee so we can keep changing the law to make polluters pay! 🙏❤️🌏
We certainly agree. Hopefully, public & political questions will force more attention & action
Our Founding Director @georgiaes.bsky.social was on BBC News earlier this morning, talking about the scandal of sewage sludge being spread onto our farmland despite the testing of this sludge not being updated since 1989.
Read more about our ask to government here bsky.app/profile/figh...
To recap: There are 10,000+ PFAS. Some are toxic. They're here forever. They pollute water, air, soils, animals and you. Some linked to diseases inc cancers. So when scientists warn against moves to redefine them, we'd better hope people are listening: www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Some of you have very kindly voted for me here. If anyone else wants to do so, it's the last call - voting closes at midnight. Thank you! www.amnesty.org.uk/cast-your-vote
£ for £ nothing else can compete, a unit of energy not used is always cheaper - than even a unit of green energy made. We should be scaling this up, not scaling it back. The treasury need to see that insulation is infrastructure, investment in the future. Warm Homes matter - and payback very quickly
I hope Labour are not quietly watering down the Warm Homes plan – 5 million homes are at risk. But insulation is one of the smartest investments we can make – it slashes bills, emissions, and energy waste - and improves lives.
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How lovely to be included in this list of wonderful campaigners! Thank you, @endsreport.com
Thank you, @endsreport.com! What wonderful company to be in
Unbiased judicial process is the backbone of democracy & the ultimate protection for human & environmental rights. Tyranny thrives when justice is denied - we must fight to defend fair trial or one day it'll be gone. @greenpeace.org @fightingdirty.bsky.social
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Absolutely absurd
KKR is a private equity firm that inspired a book and film about corporate greed called Barbarians at the Gate
NO we don't want them running Thames Water
PUBLIC OWNERSHIP NOW
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Terrible news! Between 2021 & 2024 the ban on hunting turtle doves allowed the population to increase 25% - an astronomical speed of recovery. Before that numbers had been plummeting. Turtle dove population in the UK shrank by 98% between 1994 & 2021.
Yesterday the UK's Clean Heat Market Mechanism launched.
The UK is the first country in the world setting clean heat standards for heating appliance manufacturers. It is a policy that if implemented well could be the key to scaling clean heating solutions.
www.installeronline.co.uk/green-energy...
How did two short-eared owls end up getting shot on a grouse moor in the Yorkshire Dales ? Thanks to @rspbinvestigations.bsky.social quick thinking Investigation teams , we know . . .
The Environment Agency will review its approach to waste tyre exports.
This comes after @fightingdirty.bsky.social initiated legal proceedings after an investigation found that millions of tyres being exported from the UK are being sent to furnaces in India
www.endsreport.com/article/1912...
At a time when the government is "cutting red tape", telling regulators they need to "do more with less", sometimes it's revealing to look at what happens when the same firms that operate in this country are freed from restrictions.
Makes you think 🤔
Veolia deliberately pumping hazardous landfill waste into protected wetlands. The same #Veolia that manages UK landfills & incinerators @veoliauk.bsky.social
