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Georgia Elliott-Smith

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Enviromental justice campaigner, engineer, founder of Fighting Dirty @fightingdirty.bsky.social.

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Georgia Elliott-Smith @georgiaes.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Me sifting through the govt's 2000+ page response to @fightingdirty.bsky.social legal challenge against the new "fast track" for novel foreign chemicals 😶‍🌫️ Find out more 👇 www.crowdjustice.com/case/fightin... #PFAS #chemicalregulation @georgemonbiot.bsky.social @stevehyndside.bsky.social
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Scrubs: Overwhelmed by Paperwork
ALT: Scrubs: Overwhelmed by Paperwork
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Georgia Elliott-Smith @georgiaes.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
CASE UPDATE: The govt. has responded to @fightingdirty legal challenge to the UK's new "fast track" for harmful chemicals. The response is 2000+ pages 🤯 Learn about the case here👇 www.crowdjustice.com/case/fightin... #PFAS #chemicalregulation @georgemonbiot.bsky.social @stevehyndside.bsky.social
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UK Government scraps chemical safety laws - so we're going to court
George Monbiot, Georgia Elliott-Smith and Steve Hyndside are Fighting Dirty, using the law to stop harmful pollution in its tracks. Find out more and follow our work at https://fightingdirty.org/
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Georgia Elliott-Smith @georgiaes.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
And we're off! Just passed the £1,000 mark with our crowdfunding campaign, raising money to take the Government to court and stop the "fast track" for new chemicals to enter the UK without scrutiny: www.crowdjustice.com/case/fightin...
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
You can follow us at @fightingdirty.bsky.social We'll keep you posted on this and other campaigns. Really appreciate any help you can give. Thank you.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
A great write-up, with useful detail, in the ever-brilliant ENDS Report. They've kindly made this article free to read. www.endsreport.com/article/1961...
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‘Deregulation dressed up as efficiency’: Government faces legal challenge over chemical rule changes
<b>EXCLUSIVE:</b> The government’s move to introduce a statutory instrument amending key chemicals laws to promote economic growth faces a legal challenge from campaigners, who argue that ministers ha...
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Here's our crowdfunder. Please do chip in if you can. We need to counter the deeply pernicious industrial lobbying that has far too much influence in this country, and uses Brexit as a golden opportunity to rip down public protections. Thanks. www.crowdjustice.com/case/fightin...
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UK Government scraps chemical safety laws - so we're going to court
George Monbiot, Georgia Elliott-Smith and Steve Hyndside are Fighting Dirty, using the law to stop harmful pollution in its tracks. Find out more and follow our work at https://fightingdirty.org/
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Georgia Elliott-Smith @georgiaes.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Today, we at @fightingdirty.bsky.social launch a legal challenge against HSE who last month introduced new regulations that rip up chemical safety laws, creating a "fast track" for new chemicals to be sold in the UK www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Fighting Dirty @fightingdirty.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
The chemicals we're exposed to today don't disappear tomorrow. They build up in our bodies, our soil and our food chain. Today, Fighting Dirty launched legal action against Government changes that could weaken chemical safety protections. We need your help. www.crowdjustice.com/case/fightin...
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UK Government scraps chemical safety laws - so we're going to court
George Monbiot, Georgia Elliott-Smith and Steve Hyndside are Fighting Dirty, using the law to stop harmful pollution in its tracks. Find out more and follow our work at https://fightingdirty.org/
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Georgia Elliott-Smith @georgiaes.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
This event brings together the world's leading defence, food security, economics, ecology & climate experts. All UK MPs are invited, but many haven't RSVP'd. Send your MP a quick prompt here www.nebriefing.org so they can learn about tangible threats to UK citizens and how to protect us
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National Emergency Briefing on climate & nature
An unfiltered assessment of the latest threats to UK food supply, health and national security from eight leading experts to an invitation-only audience - also covering positive solutions. Westminster...
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Fighting Dirty @fightingdirty.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
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...
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
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. fightingdirty.org/press-releas...
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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 ...
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Georgia Elliott-Smith @georgiaes.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
Delighted to have left X. In the words of a great philosopher, "ain't nobody got time for that".
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Fighting Dirty @fightingdirty.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
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/...
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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
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Fighting Dirty @fightingdirty.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
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...
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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...
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Fighting Dirty @fightingdirty.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
Huge hat tip to our friends at @riveractionuk.bsky.social and Hugh for illustrating the issues here so clearly. If you're not already following @riveractionuk.bsky.social do now - they're campaign on #sewagesludge is taking our concerns on the subject to the heart of government!
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Fighting Dirty @fightingdirty.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
Inaction isn't an option 👇 “Every day of inaction locks in decades of pollution and environmental harm … we’re asking the UK government to turn off the tap of these persistent forever chemicals.” @fidrango.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Toxic Pfas above proposed safety limits in almost all English waters tested
Exclusive: 110 of 117 bodies of water tested by Environment Agency would fail standards, with levels in fish 322 times the planned limit
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Fighting Dirty @fightingdirty.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
UPDATE: The Environment Agency has told us that their review of their regulatory position for waste tyre exports (more on this here fightingdirty.org/major-victor...) will now be published on the 31st July - more than a month after they were originally aiming to. Watch this space.
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Major victory’ for campaigners as Environment Agency agrees to tackle UK tyre exports to India following threat of legal action | Fighting Dirty
The legal campaign group, Fighting Dirty, has secured a major victory after receiving a letter from the Environment Agency (EA) committing to undertake a review of its approach to waste tyre shipments...
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Georgia Elliott-Smith @georgiaes.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
We forced a govt investigation into illegal waste tyre export trade, and got ministers to finally pay attention to toxic sewage sludge entering our food. But we can't do this without YOU! Please share, subscribe, or buy us a virtual coffee so we can keep changing the law to make polluters pay! 🙏❤️🌏
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Fighting Dirty @fightingdirty.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Our Founding Director @georgiaes.bsky.social was on BBC News earlier this morning, talking about the scandal of sewage sludge being spread onto our farmland despite the testing of this sludge not being updated since 1989. Read more about our ask to government here bsky.app/profile/figh...
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Rachel Salvidge @rachelsalvidge.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
To recap: There are 10,000+ PFAS. Some are toxic. They're here forever. They pollute water, air, soils, animals and you. Some linked to diseases inc cancers. So when scientists warn against moves to redefine them, we'd better hope people are listening: www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Scientists warn against attempts to change definition of ‘forever chemicals’
Move to narrow classification of Pfas and weaken regulation is ‘politically and/or economically motivated’
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
Some of you have very kindly voted for me here. If anyone else wants to do so, it's the last call - voting closes at midnight. Thank you! www.amnesty.org.uk/cast-your-vote
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Cast Your Vote for the Amnesty UK People's Choice Award
Cast your vote in the first ever Amnesty UK People's Choice Awards. Which UK journalist do you think made the greatest impact in their tireless reporting on human rights?
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Dale Vince @dalevince.com · 21/05/2025
£ for £ nothing else can compete, a unit of energy not used is always cheaper - than even a unit of green energy made. We should be scaling this up, not scaling it back. The treasury need to see that insulation is infrastructure, investment in the future. Warm Homes matter - and payback very quickly
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Dale Vince @dalevince.com · 21/05/2025
I hope Labour are not quietly watering down the Warm Homes plan – 5 million homes are at risk. But insulation is one of the smartest investments we can make – it slashes bills, emissions, and energy waste - and improves lives. buff.ly/X5QZlgC
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Georgia Elliott-Smith @georgiaes.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
How lovely to be included in this list of wonderful campaigners! Thank you, @endsreport.com
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Georgia Elliott-Smith @georgiaes.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Unbiased judicial process is the backbone of democracy & the ultimate protection for human & environmental rights. Tyranny thrives when justice is denied - we must fight to defend fair trial or one day it'll be gone. @greenpeace.org @fightingdirty.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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I was an independent observer in the Greenpeace trial. What I saw was shocking | Steven Donziger
Greenpeace lost – not because it did something wrong but because it was denied a fair trial
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Cat Hobbs @cathobbs.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Absolutely absurd KKR is a private equity firm that inspired a book and film about corporate greed called Barbarians at the Gate NO we don't want them running Thames Water PUBLIC OWNERSHIP NOW www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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Thames Water names US private equity group KKR as preferred bidder
KKR expected to acquire stake worth £4bn as UK’s biggest water supplier tries to stave off nationalisation
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WATERSHED Investigations @watershed-i.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Terrible news! Between 2021 & 2024 the ban on hunting turtle doves allowed the population to increase 25% - an astronomical speed of recovery. Before that numbers had been plummeting. Turtle dove population in the UK shrank by 98% between 1994 & 2021.
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Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Yesterday the UK's Clean Heat Market Mechanism launched. The UK is the first country in the world setting clean heat standards for heating appliance manufacturers. It is a policy that if implemented well could be the key to scaling clean heating solutions. www.installeronline.co.uk/green-energy...
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Clean Heat Market Mechanism launched
The Clean Heat Market Mechanism (CHMM) has been introduced by the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero. Under the scheme, manufacturers that sell more
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Chris Packham @chrisgpackham.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
How did two short-eared owls end up getting shot on a grouse moor in the Yorkshire Dales ? Thanks to @rspbinvestigations.bsky.social quick thinking Investigation teams , we know . . .
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pippaneill.bsky.social @pippaneill.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
The Environment Agency will review its approach to waste tyre exports. This comes after @fightingdirty.bsky.social initiated legal proceedings after an investigation found that millions of tyres being exported from the UK are being sent to furnaces in India www.endsreport.com/article/1912...
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Environment Agency to review waste tyre shipments following legal threat
The Environment Agency (EA) will review its approach to waste tyre shipments after an investigation found that millions of UK tyres are being illegally sent to pyrolysis plants in India.
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Leana Hosea @leanahosea.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
At a time when the government is "cutting red tape", telling regulators they need to "do more with less", sometimes it's revealing to look at what happens when the same firms that operate in this country are freed from restrictions.
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Georgia Elliott-Smith @georgiaes.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
Veolia deliberately pumping hazardous landfill waste into protected wetlands. The same #Veolia that manages UK landfills & incinerators @veoliauk.bsky.social
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Fighting Dirty @fightingdirty.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
"we wait with cautious optimism to find out more about the scope of their review. The government must stop turning a blind eye to the illegal and immoral activity of UK waste exporters." Our Director @georgiaes.bsky.social as reported by @pippaneill.bsky.social for @endsreport.com 👇
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Steve Hyndside @stevehyndside.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Unbelievable. So incredibly proud to have played a small role in this alongside @georgemonbiot.bsky.social & @georgiaes.bsky.social and of course the wonderful folk at @leighday.bsky.social and Matrix Chambers
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Fighting Dirty @fightingdirty.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
🛑STOP PRESS 🛑 This is HUGE news 🎉🎉🎉 The Environment Agency has said it will review the legal framework around exporting car tyres in response to our threat of court proceedings. Thanks to everyone who backed our work. fightingdirty.org/major-victor...
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Major victory’ for campaigners as Environment Agency agrees to tackle UK tyre exports to India following threat of legal action | Fighting Dirty
The legal campaign group, Fighting Dirty, has secured a major victory after receiving a letter from the Environment Agency (EA) committing to undertake a review of its approach to waste tyre shipments...
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Georgia Elliott-Smith @georgiaes.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
@citizensarrestnet.bsky.social No more hiding behind the 'body corporate' - these senior execs are now under investigation for their personal roles. They know the science & the harms of their decisions but continue to pollute. 👏 Activists doing what the govt won't 👏 #citizensarrest
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Natasha Walter @natashawalter.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Brave women are carrying out citizens arrests on those seen as responsible for pollution & climate chaos. Today they had a surprise for the CFO of Enquest. Follow @citizensarrestnet.bsky.social for more. @georgemonbiot.bsky.social @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social @jksteinberger.bsky.social
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Fighting Dirty @fightingdirty.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
"Environment Agency facing risk of legal action over tyre waste exports" www.businessgreen.com/news/4411328...
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Environment Agency facing risk of legal action over tyre waste exports
Campaign group Fighting Dirty puts watchdog on notice of legal proceedings over alleged failure to adequately police exporting of used car tyres
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Fighting Dirty @fightingdirty.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Our Founding Director @georgiaes.bsky.social was on BBC Radio 4's File on 4. UK car tyres are being exported to India to produce the dirtiest of industrial fuels. Help us in Fighting Dirty as we crowdfund our legal action to stop this. stop-uk-tyre-exports.raiselysite.com
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Steve Hyndside @stevehyndside.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
We've just broken the first £1,000 mark. Thank you.
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Georgia Elliott-Smith @georgiaes.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Today, @fightingdirty.bsky.social launches our legal case to stop the export of millions of UK tyres to unregulated Indian pyrolysis plants, causing massive pollution & suffering. Help us stop it by supporting our campaign stop-uk-tyre-exports.raiselysite.com Thank you 🙏❤️🌍
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Georgia Elliott-Smith @georgiaes.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Our gorgeous new website, created by @matttutt.me and Dario of @restlessstories.bsky.social, is live! Learn about the legal challenges we're working on, sign up for our newsletters, or even buy us a coffee!
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Fighting Dirty @fightingdirty.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
This is it ... Behind the scenes, some amazing people have been volunteering their time to update our website. We would love you to have a look. Learn more about our work. Sign up to our mailing list. And most importantly, join us in Fighting Dirty. fightingdirty.org
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Home | Fighting Dirty
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Georgia Elliott-Smith @georgiaes.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Today, my @fightingdirty.bsky.social co-director, George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social writes about how flawed regulation & water company greed puts industrial waste on our plates. Please help us change the law by supporting our work 🙏🌍❤️ fightingdirty.org www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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What’s in the millions of tonnes of sludge spread on to UK farmland? Toxic waste – and ministers don’t care | George Monbiot
Water companies let waste disposers, for cash, dump their loads into sewage farms. When it is recklessly used as fertiliser, we are all at risk, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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Chris Packham @chrisgpackham.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
Watch the full interview on YouTube here: youtu.be/bOzsZYWMaXE @wildjustice.bsky.social
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Chris Packham meets Glenn Massacre
YouTube video by Chris Packham
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Wild Justice @wildjustice.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Good morning, from the back page of Private Eye magazine!
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Georgia Elliott-Smith @georgiaes.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
An intriguing, powerful new tactic on the frontline against polluters - citizen's arrest. This well-considered action, based on sound legal principles, requires police to review factual dossiers with evidence of wrongdoing. Activists doing what politicians should ✊️👏💚 #citizensarrest #thameswater
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Georgia Elliott-Smith @georgiaes.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
When I took the UK govt to court in 2021, demanding incinerators be taxed on emissions, this Danish plant was held up as 'renewable'. Now, EfW must pay for emissions & the truth is revealed - they're CO2 & 'forever chemical' manufacturing plants! #foreverchemicals #EfW #WtE #incineration
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WATERSHED Investigations @watershed-i.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
There's a lot of data on UK water pollution - but it's not always laid out so it's easy for people to find. We wanted people to be able to investigate what's polluting their local area, & the Felt platform enabled us to build the Watershed Pollution Map: watershedinvestigations.com/landfill-sit...
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How FELT help WATERSHED uncover a toxic legacy - Watershed Investigations
Felt, the cutting edge could-native GIS mapping platform enabled Watershed to tackle datasets of all formats and sizes, making visible the challenges to our rivers, seas, wildlife and habitats.
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