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Fighting Dirty granted High Court hearing to challenge Environment Agency over axing of pledge to test sewage sludge

Environmental campaign group Fighting Dirty has been granted permission for a High Court hearing to challenge the Environment Agency (EA) over its decision to axe a commitment to have sewage sludge tested for microplastics and forever chemicals before it is spread on agricultural land as fertiliser. Continue reading Fighting Dirty granted High Court hearing to challenge Environment Agency over axing of pledge to test sewage sludge

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A cocktail of toxins is poisoning our fields. Its effect on humans? Nobody can tell us

It’s an experiment with 8 billion test subjects, no controls and no endpoint. What happens when you release thousands of novel chemicals, most of which have not been tested for their impacts on human health or ecosystems, into a living planet? What are the effects on the development of foetuses, on human brains, other organs, immune systems, cancer rates, fertility? What are they doing to other species and to Earth systems? We seem determined to find out the hard way. Continue reading A cocktail of toxins is poisoning our fields. Its effect on humans? Nobody can tell us

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Why we’re fighting dirty against microplastics in our fertiliser and food

This article was written for The Grocer by one of our Directors, Steve Hynd. We don’t know how many microplastics we eat. This is, in and of itself, alarming. We do have some best estimates: one University of Newcastle study found we consume a credit card’s worth of plastic (5g) every week through inhalation, food, and beverages. We do … Continue reading Why we’re fighting dirty against microplastics in our fertiliser and food

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Press release: Campaigners take Environment Agency to court over microplastics spread on land 

The campaign group, Fighting Dirty, have today launched legal action against the Environment Agency (EA) and the Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, over a lack of testing for microplastics and harmful ‘forever chemicals’ in sewage sludge spread on land.  Continue reading Press release: Campaigners take Environment Agency to court over microplastics spread on land