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The UK PFAS Action Plan falls short in addressing the crisis we face This week, the UK government published its long-awaited PFAS Action Plan, setting out how it intends to respond to the growing crisis posed by the 'forever chemicals'. While CHEM Trust welcomes the go...

"The UK PFAS Action Plan falls short in addressing the crisis we face" @chemtrust.bsky.social

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Supersized illegal waste dumps hidden across English countryside A BBC investigation uncovers how criminals are operating huge illegal rubbish tips across the country.

This is not a sign of a functioning waste and resources system ... something is going horribly wrong. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Implementation plan (January 2026): Environment Agency's regulation of waste pneumatic tyres and their export

We are keeping a close eye on this >>> Implementation plan (January 2026): Environment Agency's regulation of waste pneumatic tyres and their export www.gov.uk/government/p...

Water firms could be let off pollution fines as part of government overhaul Exclusive: Campaigners claim changes will let companies ‘off the hook’, as government prepares to unveil new white paper for water industry

"Water firms could be let off pollution fines as part of government overhaul" 😒

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Burning Plastic Waste for Household Fuel Endangers Millions  - Inside Climate News People in low-income urban communities in the Global South without access to reliable energy sources are burning the toxic plastic waste inundating their communities to cook and heat their homes.

New research reveals an unappreciated public health crisis: people living in slums in the developing world are increasingly burning the toxic plastic trash that surrounds their communities as a last-resort fuel to cook and heat their homes.

One farmer describes becoming "increasingly concerned" as he learned the sewage sludge fertiliser he'd understood was safe to spread on fields was "laced with household chemicals & industrial wastes, often described as forever chemicals because they break down so slowly in the soil."

Public demand water firms ensure safe sewage sludge on farmland MOST Britons believe that water companies should be responsible for ensuring sewage sludge spread on farmland is not contaminated, according to new polling published today.Sewage sludge is sold as a l...

It's not a radical ask. That's why "most Britons believe that water companies should be responsible for ensuring sewage sludge spread on farmland is not contaminated"

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Thanks Jill - we rely on people power to make our campaigns work. So thank you for your kind words.

Sign the petition Water companies MUST pay to fix their mess and stop contaminating our soil!

You can add your name to the petition here action.greenpeace.org.uk/toxic-sewage...

Toxic Sewage Sludge: Fighting for Safe Farmland | Fighting Dirty

You can read more about our campaign around sewage sludge here > fightingdirty.org/campaigns/to...

This week we joined our amigos at @riveractionuk.bsky.social & @greenpeaceuk.bsky.social to deliver a petition to Emma Hardy. 70,000 people calling for a ban on toxic sewage sludge being spread on farmland, putting microplastics, pharmaceuticals and PFAS directly into food crops and the environment.

More than 520 chemicals found in English soil, including long-banned medical substances Fertilising arable land with human waste leaves array of toxins that could re-enter food chain, study finds

The inevitable consequences of the unregulated spreading of toxic sewage sludge on UK farms.
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‘I kept smelling a horrible nasty smell’: the risks of England’s old dumping grounds For some, the smell brings on nausea and headaches. Others fear ‘forever chemicals’ seeping into the water

Horrifying > "waste legally dumped at Jameson Road landfill by AGC Chemicals until 2014 contained the potentially carcinogenic “forever chemical” perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA)" www.theguardian.com/environment/...

As always, huge hat tip to @watershed-i.bsky.social

More than 520 chemicals found in English soil, including long-banned medical substances Fertilising arable land with human waste leaves array of toxins that could re-enter food chain, study finds

At the heart of this story is this quote: "These chemicals aren’t regulated for..."

Consider this a memo to Defra.

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Revealed: Europe’s water reserves drying up due to climate breakdown Exclusive: UCL scientists find large swathes of southern Europe are drying up, with ‘far-reaching’ implications

NEW! Vast swathes of Europe’s water reserves are drying up, two decades of satellite data reveals, with freshwater storage shrinking across Europe

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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

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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"

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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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