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Our pathway, without policy change, is to a warmer world where we use more and more plastic. This spells double trouble. www.imperial.ac.uk/news/article...

Creating more jobs than deaths should be a minimum standard. Someone should regulate around that ...

"could cause more deaths than jobs" 😲

Listen to our Director @georgemonbiot.bsky.social on this week's @boldpolitics.bsky.social 👇

Reap What You Sow: Exposing Lancashire's toxic town A new ENDS investigation reveals that the Environment Agency is allowing a chemicals factory to produce products containing a carcinogenic forever chemical. But how did we get here?

But, since then, emails seen by @fightingdirty.bsky.social @georgemonbiot.bsky.social @georgiaes.bsky.social reveal the firm admitting to the EA that PFOA is produced as a by-product of making another PFAS at the plant. As reported by @pippaneill.bsky.social

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REVEALED: EA allowing factory to produce products with banned PFAS – and release it to air <b>EXCLUSIVE:</b> The Environment Agency (EA) is allowing a chemicals factory to produce products containing a carcinogenic forever chemical - and release it to the air - despite it being globally ban...

Unpublished documents, shared exclusively with ENDS' by @fightingdirty.bsky.social, showed that the Environment Agency is allowing the factory to produce products containing PFOA - and release it to the air - despite it being globally banned.

Read more about the investigation here ⬇️

Home - Up Your Standards! Contact your supermarket today to tell them to call out Red Tractor, and pave the way for robust environmental standards on their products.

Is your supermarket using the Red Tractor to reassure its customers? 🏷️ 👀

We're helping @riveractionuk.bsky.social to expose the muck behind the mark - and it stinks!

Tell your supermarket to call out Red Tractor & enforce real standards: 👉 upyourstandards.riveractionuk.com?utm_source=I...

UK plastic waste exports to developing countries rose 84% in a year, data shows Campaigners say increase in exports mostly to Malaysia and Indonesia is ‘unethical and irresponsible waste imperialism’

Brexit promised us higher environmental standards. Since Brexit though, the UK has often failed to meet the minimum standards set by the EU.

Latest evidence shows the UK doubling exports of plastic waste to non-OCED countries while the EU has banned it.

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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...

THIS IS SHOCKING! 😳

See those white and blue pieces? That’s plastic.... In sewage sludge that is being spread on our farmland and often ending up in our rivers. 💩😱

🛑 THIS NEEDS TO STOP 🛑 Add your name to the petition - act.gp/4nHfsAc

📸 Credit: Fighting Dirty
#SewageSludge #ToxicSludge

Reap What You Sow: Exposing Lancashire's toxic town A new ENDS investigation reveals that the Environment Agency is allowing a chemicals factory to produce products containing a carcinogenic forever chemical. But how did we get here?

AGC Chemicals, near Blackpool, is still producing products containing the globally banned chemical PFOA, and emitting this to the air

For Georgia Elliot-Smith, of @fightingdirty.bsky.social, this issue is black and white

"There should be no discussion here”

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Fighting Dirty to renew legal action if EA tyre reforms fail | MRW Speaking at the TRA’s annual conference, campaign leader Georgia Elliott-Smith said regulator must follow through on promised changes

They've been warned ...

"Fighting Dirty to renew legal action if EA tyre reforms fail"

www.mrw.co.uk/news/fightin...

This is only possible, though, through donations (we are volunteer-run and not for profit) - monthly donations help fund our research between cases fightingdirty.org/donate/

Reap What You Sow: Exposing Lancashire's toxic town A new ENDS investigation reveals that the Environment Agency is allowing a chemicals factory to produce products containing a carcinogenic forever chemical. But how did we get here?

Now information acquired by @fightingdirty.bsky.social + shared with @pippaneill.bsky.social reveals AGC may have been aware of PFAS contamination around the site for decades before reporting by Watershed brought this pollution to light.

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A must read thead ...

In the words of our Founder @georgiaes.bsky.social "This substance is banned. This manufacturer is producing it. They are releasing it to the environment, and they are allowing it to enter their products. It's banned. That's black and white. There should be no discussion here”

REVEALED: EA allowing factory to produce products with banned PFAS – and release it to air <b>EXCLUSIVE:</b> The Environment Agency (EA) is allowing a chemicals factory to produce products containing a carcinogenic forever chemical - and release it to the air - despite it being globally ban...

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...

Thousands of tonnes of toxic landfill liquid added to sewage and spread on English farms Exclusive: Leachate is tankered to treatment works where it mixes with sewage and industrial effluent

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/...

Thousands of tonnes of toxic landfill liquid added to sewage and spread on English farms Exclusive: Leachate is tankered to treatment works where it mixes with sewage and industrial effluent

A massive, dangerous and disgusting scandal, of which far too few people are yet aware. At @fightingdirty.bsky.social we'll keep pushing to stop it. Congrats to @rachelsalvidge.bsky.social for continuing to shine the light:
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"many councils, including Caerphilly, have not updated their inspection strategies for potentially contaminated land on average since 2014" www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Still no Plastics Treaty: How the fossil fuel industry keeps polluting negotiations - Greenpeace Southeast Asia It’s time for world leaders to confront the elephant in the UN Global Plastics Treaty negotiation room: Big Oil.

The plastics industry - those who make money from producing and distributing plastics - should never have been in the room to discuss a treaty that needed to limit and reduce the amount of plastic produced. Good on @greenpeace.org for calling this out.

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‘A Trojan horse’: how toxic sewage sludge became a threat to the future of British farming Sludge used as fertiliser on farmland contains harmful chemicals that scientists suspect are entering food chain

For campaign groups like @fightingdirty.bsky.social @fidrango.bsky.social @wclnews.bsky.social & the many people in the EA who have been calling for a review of biosolid use for years, these represent significant moves in the right direction.
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‘Alarmingly high’ levels of forever chemicals found at airports in England, investigation reveals Exclusive: 17 sites recorded elevated levels, in some cases thousands of times higher than proposed safe limits, as experts warn of potential risk to drinking water

"17 sites recorded elevated levels, in some cases thousands of times higher than proposed safe limits, as experts warn of potential risk to drinking water" www.theguardian.com/environment/...

ICYMI :)

Couldn't agree more.

Want to import toxic chemicals into Britain with scant scrutiny? Labour says: go right ahead | George Monbiot Jacob Rees-Mogg’s Tory fantasy of a post-Brexit bonfire of regulations is coming true. Our bodies and ecosystems will pay the price, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

"The true price is incalculable"

Our Director @georgemonbiot.bsky.social rightly raising the alarm www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Press Release: Fighting Dirty wins major campaign victory as Government announces plan to regulate ‘toxic’ sewage sludge | Fighting Dirty The campaigning environmental group, Fighting Dirty, is today celebrating a landmark victory following the release of the long-awaited Independent Water Commission Report, which recommends regulating ...

ICYMI - we're delighted to report a major campaign victory as Government announces plan to regulate ‘toxic’ sewage sludge fightingdirty.org/press-releas...

The environmental campaign group, Fighting Dirty, is celebrating a "landmark victory" following the release of the Independent Water Commission Report. It recommends regulating sewage sludge - poured onto farmland and then polluting waterways - under the Environmental Permitting Regime (EPR)

Press Release: Fighting Dirty wins major campaign victory as Government announces plan to regulate ‘toxic’ sewage sludge | Fighting Dirty The campaigning environmental group, Fighting Dirty, is today celebrating a landmark victory following the release of the long-awaited Independent Water Commission Report, which recommends regulating ...

Great news. At
@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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This is a huge victory 🎉 only made possible thanks to all of you who have supported our work.

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Needless to say we will be keeping an eye on this and making sure it is implemented in a timely way.