Water Pollution Prevention News – Microplastics, Illegal Waste and 100,000 Dead Fish
The mighty River Thames isn’t just mighty. It’s also filthy, thanks to extraordinary amounts of micro-plastic waste. A football pitch-sized illegal waste site in Cambridgeshire is being shut down for good by the Environment Agency. Omex Agricultural, the company responsible for serious pollution that killed more than 100,000 fish in the River Witham, have been […]
COVID 19, Sewage discharges, illegal waste fines, criminal operations
Covid 19, sewage discharges, illegal waste fines, criminal operations Our current approach to Covid 19; this week Venice’s famously polluted canals have cleared for the first time in a very long time, mostly thanks to Covid-19 reducing the number of visitors to the city. At the same time the UK government’s new environment bill is coming under […]
Environment fines, double the usual rainfall, commercial fires
Environment fines, double the usual rainfall, commercial fires You can run but you can’t hide – one Plymouth man has been extradited from Ireland to face a prison sentence for serious fly tipping. We encountered twice the average rainfall in February, a trend that’s set to grow as climate continues to bite. And, as usual, […]
Why we should all be concerned about water pollution.
Is it too obvious to state that all human life, all life, depends on clean water? Because water covers 70% of the planet, you would be forgiven for thinking that there will always be enough of it. The issue is that freshwater, the water we drink, clean ourselves with and, irrigate our farms with, is […]
A 13 day-long wood fire, big fines and long custodial prison sentences
A 13 day-long wood fire, big fines and long custodial prison sentences Industrial fires and water pollution sit at the heart of our first post for February 2020. Despite tough water pollution prevention laws and strict fire regulations, it keeps on happening. And the perpetrators almost always end up with a large fine as well […]
Waste-led environment penalties plus a new initiative to combat waste crime
Waste-led environment penalties plus a new initiative to combat waste crime January has seen a rash of waste-led environment fines, environment penalties and custodial sentences. It’s good to know that there’s a new taskforce unit for 2020, designed to tackle serious waste crime more effectively. Waste criminals have nowhere to hide A new specialist waste […]
Floating bots, Severn Trent Water fines, more pollution from farms
Scientists in the Netherlands are doing clever things with water bots. Severn Trent Water makes a huge charity donation to compensate for killing thousands of fish. Yet another farmer is caught polluting the environment. And a new quarry development has been halted thanks to fears about drinking water pollution. Floating bots detect pipe networks, leaks […]
Weetabix fine, chemical spills, Irish river woes and water pollution innovations
Weetabix fine, chemical spills, Irish river woes and water pollution innovations … Ireland’s river quality is plummeting fast. In Northamptonshire the cereals giant Weetabix has been fined £140,000 for polluting a river with thousands of litres of diesel fuel, threatening the lives of fish and water plants. Chemical spills are not as rare as you […]
Environment Agency budget cuts, a flurry of industrial fires and chemical spills plus more
Environment Agency budget cuts, a flurry of industrial fires and more Right now the Environment Agency is pulling out all the stops, working day and night to help people across the country affected by flooding. Every year we seem to be seeing more floods in Britain, and the biggest culprit is, of course, climate change. […]
Huge environment fines, Milton Keynes farmer’s shame, EU targets missed
Huge environment fines, Milton Keynes farmer’s shame, EU targets missed This time around we’re listing the UK’s ten biggest water pollution voluntary settlements, looking at the crucial EU environmental targets the nation is about to miss, examining the multiple pollution incidents caused by one Milton Keynes farmer, and exploring the fact that The Environment Agency […]
