Farm pollution, water pollution, illegal waste and Climate Change

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Farm pollution, water pollution, illegal waste and Climate Change. The Environment Agency has been busy as usual. They’ve been dealing with serious industrial spill in the shape of farm pollution, and with vehicles carrying waste illegally around north London, the focus of a recent clampdown operation. Their online service designed to update the public on […]

Anglian Water failings, dead fish, nitrates and massive fines.

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Anglian Water failings, dead fish, nitrates and massive fines Isn’t it interesting how frequently we talk about water utility companies in relation to water pollution incidents and huge fines? That’s because they tend to be some of the worst offenders of all. At the same time, most of them are generating massive profits to pass […]

Chemical spill, silage pollution, unsafe beaches and farm effluent.

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Chemical spill, silage pollution, unsafe beaches and farm effluent. While industrial fire can cause all sorts of havoc, danger and damage, industrial spill can leave waterways horribly polluted and the damage can spread a very long way before it’s noticed or dealt with. This time around, as usual, there’s a crop of real water pollution […]

2018 was ‘unacceptable’ – England’s water companies must do better.

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In a week when yet another water company is heavily fined for polluting the nation’s waterways, The Environment Agency has slammed the entire sector for ‘unacceptable’ standards through 2018. It represents yet more proof, as if we needed it, that the country’s water utilities firms are a very long way from perfect, and have a […]

Water companies receiving massive fines for water pollution, a dead fish scandal, British rivers in crisis and a spate of industrial fires and spills

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Water utilities companies are in big trouble right now, with massive fines in the south-east, northeast and north-west of England. At the same time, a new study by Greenpeace has revealed Britain’s rivers are “so polluted with waste almost all samples contain microplastics, and one is choked with a higher concentration of plastic than the […]

Biffa gets a biffing, controlled waste woes, farm fines, and the DWI

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Biffa is one of Britain’s biggest waste management businesses – and they’ve just been given a pasting for exporting dirty nappies and worse in consignments of paper waste bound for recycling in China. One Newark man will be paying more than four grand in fines for transporting controlled waste without a licence, and a Devon […]

Commercial fires and environmental fines – not as rare as you may think

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Commercial fire and environmental fines – not as rare as you might think. Recent weeks have seen more of industrial fires, environmental fines and chemical spills, are we really surprised by this anymore? Here is the water pollution prevention news. An Industrial fire can destroy a business all on its own. However, the fallout can be as […]

Thames Water fail, housing pollution, river pollution and beach pollution.

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Thames Water’s CE steps down amid scandals over leaks, their response to extreme weather and poor planning. A controversial housing development goes ahead despite water pollution concerns from the NHS and the Environment Agency. Creatures are rescued from a polluted river site in Lincolnshire, and in Northern Ireland, a businessman is fined £3000 for polluting […]

The polluter pays, chemical spills, massive fines and lithium battery recycling

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Polluters pay, chemical spills, huge fines and lithium battery recycling. When a factory suffers two nasty incidents in just a few months, you have to ask what they’re doing wrong.. and what they’re doing to put it right. Lithium battery waste fires might soon be a thing of the past. And it looks like today’s […]

Huge Stoke fine, pesticides and antibiotics, Yorkshire Water fail

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As usual this week sees a number of serious water pollution incidents reported online. Not a week goes by without at least one incident. Here’s the latest water pollution prevention and spill containment news. Fuerst Day Lawson donates £150,000 to The Trent Rivers Trust A pollution incident between July and September 2015 saw polluting matter entering […]