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Tess Colley

@tesscolley.bsky.social
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Award-winning environment journalist. Deputy Editor @endsreport.com 🌍 Bylines in The Guardian, South London Press Previously comms for BBC News ✉️ tess.colley@haymarket.com

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Tess Colley @tesscolley.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
🚨GREAT JOB ALERT🚨 ENDS Report is recruiting a news editor to join our multi-award winning team! Our coverage pushes the environmental news agenda, and this role would allow you to dig deep and break new ground in the areas that spark your interest most.. careers.haymarket.com/jobs/1477?la...
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News editor, ENDS Report in London, United Kingdom | Haymarket Media Group
haymarket is hiring a News editor, ENDS Report in London, United Kingdom. Review all of the job details and apply today!
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ENDS Report @endsreport.com · 23/03/2026
Have you watched ‘In Our Blood: The Forever Chemicals Scandal’? Our journalist @pippaneill.bsky.social, featured in the documentary on ITVX, has followed the story of Bentham, its people, and PFAS for years. Now, first-of-its-kind testing has lifted the lid on a new chapter in that story ⚠️
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ENDS Report @endsreport.com · 20/03/2026
“Alarming” levels of forever chemicals have been found in the blood of residents living near to a firefighting foam factory in North Yorkshire, an ITV Exposure and ENDS Report investigation has revealed. To find out more, tune in to 'In Our Blood' at 10:15pm, this Sunday, on ITV1 or ITVX 🎬
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Tess Colley @tesscolley.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
To win big, Reform UK needs to appeal to a wider base than it currently does – and it's eyeing green-minded Tories. While some say helping Reform develop stronger env.policies is no bad thing, here's why I think it's far from a comfortable place for the sector.. www.endsreport.com/article/1948...
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Farage is looking to boost Reform UK’s nature policies – here’s why lending him a fig leaf may be fraught with danger
To win big, Reform UK needs to appeal to a wider base than it currently does – and it looks like it's eyeing green-minded Tories. While some say helping the right-wing populist party develop stronger ...
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Tess Colley @tesscolley.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
NEW: Lawyers ‘gathering views’ after government throws out all species protection proposals from own scientists www.endsreport.com/article/1944... with comment from @richardbenwell.bsky.social @jasonreeves80.bsky.social @ruthchambers.bsky.social
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Lawyers ‘gathering views’ after government throws out all species protection proposals from own scientists
A law firm is “gathering views” on the implications for animals like beavers and grey seals of the government rejecting all protected species recommendations from the UK’s wildlife agencies, in a move...
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Tess Colley @tesscolley.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
Catch Adnan Khan & me speaking to @katelaycock.bsky.social from Deutsche Welle's Inside Europe podcast about Boy Wasted - our podcast telling the story of a body found in a bale of plastic in Turkey - and what it has to do with us in western Europe. At 31 mins 👇 www.dw.com/en/inside-eu...
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Inside Europe – DW
A weekly deep dive into the twists and turns of European current affairs, politics and culture, brought to you by Germany’s international broadcaster.
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pippaneill.bsky.social @pippaneill.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
Great to hear @tesscolley.bsky.social and Adnan Khan discuss the findings of our podcast Boy Wasted on Inside Europe (31 mins in!) "9 million containers pass through British ports every year and there are five Environment Agency officers in England checking them" www.dw.com/en/inside-eu...
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Inside Europe – DW
A weekly deep dive into the twists and turns of European current affairs, politics and culture, brought to you by Germany’s international broadcaster.
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Tess Colley @tesscolley.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
Was delighted to join a panel Labour Party conference this week to talk about ENDS' true crime investigation - Boy Wasted. The audience heard how our findings showed that plastic waste is a ‘public health emergency’ - not just an environmental one 👇 www.endsreport.com/article/1933...
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ENDS investigation shows plastic waste is a ‘public health emergency’, Labour conference hears
<strong>Labour Party Conference:</strong> The government must reframe the problem of plastic waste as a public health emergency rather than just an environmental one, the co-executive director of Gree...
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Tess Colley @tesscolley.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
Read my comment piece on what I saw at this year's Liverpudlian jambouree, and what it has to say about Labour's thinking on 'nature v housing'.. @endsreport.com www.endsreport.com/article/1934...
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I’m back from Labour conference with a new understanding of its approach on nature and building – you may not like it
An ex-No.10 advisor told me Labour’s anti-nature talk was just ‘grit in the oyster’ – could a ‘Nature Bill’ be Starmer’s pearl?
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pippaneill.bsky.social @pippaneill.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
Labour Conference: ‘Houses should never have been built’ near the AGC chemicals factory in Blackpool the constituency MP told delegates The factory is currently at the centre of a contaminated land investigation in relation to PFAS pollution www.endsreport.com/article/1933...
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‘Houses should never have been built’ near Blackpool PFAS factory, MP says
<strong>Labour Party Conference:</strong> ‘Houses should never have been built’ near a chemicals factory in Blackpool that is currently at the centre of a contaminated land investigation, the constitu...
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Tess Colley @tesscolley.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
If govt brings forward a new planning bill it will most likely be a 'Nature Bill' to replace EU-derived nature protections, a former No.10 advisor on housing told me at Lab Party Conference 👇 Gov says 'just speculation', but that's not the feeling on the ground.. www.endsreport.com/article/1934...
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A new planning bill would likely be a ‘Nature Bill’, says former No.10 advisor
<strong>Labour Party Conference:</strong> If the government brings forward a new planning bill it will most likely be a “Nature Bill” to replace the Habitats Regulations and EU-derived nature protecti...
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Tess Colley @tesscolley.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
A mix of No Farmers No Food and anti-digital ID protestors - mostly all with the same Farmers to Action branded placards - plus lots of England and Union Jack flags thrown in, outside the opening day of Labour Party Conference yesterday
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Tess Colley @tesscolley.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
This is today! If you’re at Labour Conference come and join us at 2pm 👇
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Tess Colley @tesscolley.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
At the Labour Party Conference @barrygardiner.bsky.social MP is convening a panel I'll be speaking on to discuss the findings of Boy Wasted, and the tonnes of plastic we in the UK export abroad. 2pm at Solidarity Cafe in the Staybridge Suites on 28th Sept Come join! www.solidaritycafe.com
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Solidarity Café is run by Barry Gardiner MP, as a pop-up Labour Party Conference FRINGE event on Saturday 27 and Sunday 28 September 2025 between 12noon and 4pm each day.
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Tess Colley @tesscolley.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
An MP is starting a campaign 'for real change' following a joint ENDS investigation revealing that 🚨 hundreds of boys & men have died 🚨 in recycling plants in Turkey – a top UK plastic export destination. He'll launch it at Labour Party conference with a panel... www.endsreport.com/article/1933...
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MP to start campaign ‘for real change’ at Labour Party conference in wake of ENDS waste investigation
An MP who sits on the Environmental Audit Committee is seeking to start a campaign “for real change” in the wake of a joint ENDS investigation which revealed that hundreds of boys and men have died in...
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ENDS Report @endsreport.com · 26/09/2025
🚨Are you going to Labour Party Conference? On Sunday, ENDS' @tesscolley.bsky.social, will be speaking on a panel at 2pm to discuss our new true crime podcast, Boy Wasted, and the issue of plastic exports, crime, and recycling. Join her at Solidarity Cafe ⬇️ solidaritycafe.com
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pippaneill.bsky.social @pippaneill.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
🚨🎧📣🎙️Listen to the EcoChamber podcast to hear @tesscolley.bsky.social and I discuss my investigation into a chemical company near Blackpool, which is producing products containing a carcinogenic & banned chemical and emitting it to air (It's free to listen!) www.endsreport.com/article/1933...
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Reap what you sow: Lancashire's toxic town - exposed
An ENDS exclusive reveals a chemical giant in the UK is still producing the banned and carcinogenic forever chemical PFOA. The company says that production of the substance is inadvertent and within r...
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Tess Colley @tesscolley.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
'We thought we were looking into one mysterious body..but what emerged was a whole broken system full of criminality & death' Our Boy Wasted investigation reveals a bloody underworld at the bottom of your recycling bin. Listen wherever you get your podcasts. www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
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‘A broken system full of criminality and death’: the podcast lifting the lid on what happens to the UK’s rubbish
Turkey’s recycling centres treat vast amounts of the UK’s waste – and rely on refugees who work in conditions so unsafe that hundreds have died. A new podcast uncovers the sinister side of what happen...
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pippaneill.bsky.social @pippaneill.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
I'm looking forward to attending this event at the Labour Party Conference next week, where Lucy Taylor and @tesscolley.bsky.social will discuss our Boy Wasted podcast. The event will be hosted by Labour MP and Environmental Audit Committee member Barry Gardiner www.solidaritycafe.com
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Solidarity Café is run by Barry Gardiner MP, as a pop-up Labour Party Conference FRINGE event on Saturday 27 and Sunday 28 September 2025 between 12noon and 4pm each day.
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Tess Colley @tesscolley.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
The UK's biggest export is waste.. ..but the Environment Agency only has five full time port officers across all of England. This and more in our new true crime podcast - Boy Wasted. Listen to the series on @endsreport.com's Eco Chamber podcast feed now 👇 www.endsreport.com/article/1932...
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LISTEN NOW > BOY WASTED: A bale of plastic. A mystery body. A global investigation
There’s a concrete yard with piles of plastic, and lying on the ground is the body of a boy – grotesquely ripped apart. Who was he? And what really happened to him? A team of award-winning investigati...
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Tess Colley @tesscolley.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
🚨🚨Campaigners have called on the government to ban all plastic waste exports following a joint ENDS investigation out yesterday. It revealed hundreds of boys and men have been killed in recycling factories in Turkey - a top destination for UK waste exports👇 www.endsreport.com/article/1932...
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Call for ban on UK plastic waste abroad following true crime investigation
Campaigners have called for the government to ban all plastic waste exports following a joint ENDS investigation that revealed hundreds of boys and men have been killed in recycling factories in Turke...
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Tess Colley @tesscolley.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
What does the body of a boy found in a bale of plastic have to do with what you put in your recycling bin? More than you might like to think. Boy Wasted, a new true podcast that lifts the lid on the underbelly of the global plastics industry. 🎧 Wherever you get your podcasts - OUT NOW ❗
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Dan Ashby @danielashby.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
NEW: Calls for plastic exports ban as investigation reveals hundreds of boys and men killed in recycling factories in Turkey. Boy Wasted, our three-part podcast exposes hundreds of deaths in recycling facilities. Search for it now wherever you get your podcasts.
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pippaneill.bsky.social @pippaneill.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
🔴 EXCLUSIVE 🔴 The Environment Agency is allowing a chemicals factory to produce products containing a globally banned PFAS chemical – and release it to air. 🧵
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Tess Colley @tesscolley.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
🚨 Boy Wasted, a new true crime podcast revealing a terrible truth about what we throw in our recycling bins, is *****out tomorrow*****. You don't want to miss it - subscribe to the Eco Chamber now to get it in your feed, wherever you get your podcasts 🎧
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Tess Colley @tesscolley.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
A bale of plastic. A mystery body. A global investigation. Next week we release something a bit special - 'Boy Wasted' - a new true crime podcast series. This has been a massive, heart-breaking project! Please share & subscribe to the Eco Chamber now to get it in your podcast feed.
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Tess Colley @tesscolley.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Do you like true crime podcasts? Do you like the environment? Then listen to 'Boy Wasted', made by the team behind the BBC's Buried series. It all starts with a body found in a bale of plastic. Finding out who he was takes you into the depths of plastics industry. Subscribe to the ECO CHAMBER now
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Tess Colley @tesscolley.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Do you like true crime podcasts? Do you like the environment? Then listen to 'Boy Wasted', made by the team behind the BBC's Buried series. It all starts with a body found in a bale of plastic. Finding out who he was takes you into the depths of plastics industry. Subscribe to the ECO CHAMBER now
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Tess Colley @tesscolley.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
A bale of plastic. A mystery body. A global investigation. Next week we release something a bit special - 'Boy Wasted' - a new true crime podcast series. This has been a massive, heart-breaking project! Please share & subscribe to the Eco Chamber now to get it in your podcast feed.
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ENDS Report @endsreport.com · 10/09/2025
A bale of plastic. A mystery body. A global investigation. Boy Wasted - a new true-crime series - out next week. Subscribe to the Eco Chamber podcast now wherever you get your podcasts to get it in your feed.
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Tess Colley @tesscolley.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
Emma Reynolds, who this morning was city minister at the Treasury, is now environment secretary 👇
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Damian Carrington @dpcarrington.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
Chemical firms are lobbying MPs not to follow proposed EU ban on “forever chemicals” - their arguments are disputed by scientists and described as “big tobacco playbook” tactics By ‪@tesscolley.bsky.social and @pippaneill.bsky.social @endsreport.com www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Chemical companies lobbying MPs not to ban Pfas
Exclusive: Analysis of responses shows firms are urging parliamentarians to limit regulation of ‘forever chemicals’
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Tess Colley @tesscolley.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
🚨 EXCLUSIVE 🚨 Major chemical producers are lobbying UK MPs to back looser restrictions on 'forever chemicals' than those proposed in the EU - using arguments slammed by scientists. Read the investigation by me & @pippaneill.bsky.social in the Guardian, and... www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Chemical companies lobbying MPs not to ban Pfas
Exclusive: Analysis of responses shows firms are urging parliamentarians to limit regulation of ‘forever chemicals’
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Tess Colley @tesscolley.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
🚨 EXCLUSIVE 🚨 Major chemical producers are lobbying UK MPs to back looser restrictions on 'forever chemicals' than those proposed in the EU - using arguments slammed by scientists. Read the investigation by me & @pippaneill.bsky.social in the Guardian, and... www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Chemical companies lobbying MPs not to ban Pfas
Exclusive: Analysis of responses shows firms are urging parliamentarians to limit regulation of ‘forever chemicals’
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Tess Colley @tesscolley.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
Great new scoop from @pippaneill.bsky.social 👇🛫👇🛬👇
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pippaneill.bsky.social @pippaneill.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
The Environment Agency has dropped its objection to controversial gas exploration plans in Yorkshire that campaigners have described as exploiting “a loophole in the government’s fracking moratorium”. Story by @tesscolley.bsky.social www.endsreport.com/article/1928...
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EA drops objection to controversial Yorkshire gas exploration plans
The Environment Agency (EA) has dropped its objection to controversial gas exploration plans in Yorkshire that campaigners have described as exploiting “a loophole in the government’s fracking morator...
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Tess Colley @tesscolley.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
“Farmers are being deceived by the water companies. They're being misled" - @georgemonbiot.bsky.social 22 tonnes of microplastics are dumped on farmland PER DAY via sludge - read this snapshot of my investigation outside the paywall (for a limited time!) www.endsreport.com/article/1924...
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22 tonnes of microplastics spread on farms every day via sewage sludge, investigation reveals
<b>The Sludge Files:</b> Twenty-two tonnes of microplastics per day are estimated to be spread on English and Welsh farmland through contaminated sewage sludge fertiliser sold by water companies, with...
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Tess Colley @tesscolley.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
This includes staff at the regulator warning 3 years ago that practically all microplastics that enter sewage treatment works end up in sludge bound for farmland. My investigation has revealed that this is estimated to be 22 TONNES of microplastics per day. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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‘Like fly-tipping’: ministers ignoring pleas to cut sludge fertiliser use
Exclusive: Defra warned three years ago of farmland contamination by water firms’ sewage-derived product
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Tess Colley @tesscolley.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
These docs have revealed the extent to which the EA has sought to persuade the government to implement its plans to tighten the regulatory net on sludge, including eye-watering evidence of the risk of not doing so - and how the agency was ignored. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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‘Like fly-tipping’: ministers ignoring pleas to cut sludge fertiliser use
Exclusive: Defra warned three years ago of farmland contamination by water firms’ sewage-derived product
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Tess Colley @tesscolley.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
Last year, lawyers representing @fightingdirty.bsky.social took the EA to court over whether its decision to remove a deadline for reforming sludge regulations was unlawful. The group lost its case - but via FOI I got hold of the docs submitted by the EA. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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‘Like fly-tipping’: ministers ignoring pleas to cut sludge fertiliser use
Exclusive: Defra warned three years ago of farmland contamination by water firms’ sewage-derived product
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Tess Colley @tesscolley.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
Read my full investigation on @endsreport.com for details on: ❗️The 22 TONNES of microplastics dumped on farms per day via sludge (equal in weight to about 3.6 MILLION plastic bags) 🇺🇸Why closure of sludge-impacted farms in the US should make the UK sit up THREAD🧵 www.endsreport.com/article/1923...
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The Sludge Files: How the government ignored Environment Agency pleas to clamp down on toxic sewage sludge
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Tess Colley @tesscolley.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
🚨EXCLUSIVE🚨 After obtaining reams of internal docs, I have a new story out revealing how govt has sat for three years on plans to tighten rules letting water companies SELL sewage sludge contaminated with PFAS & microplastics. Read it in @theguardian.com, and.. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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‘Like fly-tipping’: ministers ignoring pleas to cut sludge fertiliser use
Exclusive: Defra warned three years ago of farmland contamination by water firms’ sewage-derived product
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ENDS Report @endsreport.com · 09/07/2025
Huge news ⚠️ The government has sat on plans to tighten sewage sludge rules for 3 YEARS despite the EA warning of serious contamination from pollutants like #PFAS & #microplastics! Read @tesscolley.bsky.social's investigation (outside our paywall - for now!) ⬇️ www.endsreport.com/article/1924752
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
We might have lost our court case, but the papers arising from it, analysed by the brilliant Tess Colley, are a goldmine of information about the disgraceful way in which farmers have been misled by the water companies and ministers have failed to act. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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‘Like fly-tipping’: ministers ignoring pleas to cut sludge fertiliser use
Exclusive: Defra warned three years ago of farmland contamination by water firms’ sewage-derived product
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Tess Colley @tesscolley.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
22 tonnes of microplastics are dumped on farms PER DAY via sewage sludge, my latest investigation has revealed. Emails and docs I obtained through FOI have exposed how this and other alarming warnings from the EA have been sat on for years. Read the story 👇 www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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‘Like fly-tipping’: ministers ignoring pleas to cut sludge fertiliser use
Exclusive: Defra warned three years ago of farmland contamination by water firms’ sewage-derived product
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Tess Colley @tesscolley.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
🚨EXCLUSIVE🚨 After obtaining reams of internal docs, I have a new story out revealing how govt has sat for three years on plans to tighten rules letting water companies SELL sewage sludge contaminated with PFAS & microplastics. Read it in @theguardian.com, and.. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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‘Like fly-tipping’: ministers ignoring pleas to cut sludge fertiliser use
Exclusive: Defra warned three years ago of farmland contamination by water firms’ sewage-derived product
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ENDS Report @endsreport.com · 25/06/2025
INTERVIEW 🗣️ As the Planning Bill returns to Parliament, read what @hannahbournetaylor.bsky.social - the 'Lady Godiva of swifts' - told ENDS' @tesscolley.bsky.social about what her efforts to save the ancient creatures reveal about who decision-makers are in government... endsreport.com/1922369
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INTERVIEW: The Lady Godiva of swifts on the toll of her campaign - and what it reveals about decision-making in government
Best known for launching her campaign to save swifts while practically naked, Hannah Bourne-Taylor tells ENDS what her efforts have revealed about making change, why passion is a ‘derogatory’ term in ...
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Tess Colley @tesscolley.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
NEW: In an impassioned 30-min interview, I spoke to @hannahbournetaylor.bsky.social, the 'Lady Godiva of swifts', on what her efforts to save the ancient creatures reveal about who the decision-makers in govt are, and why passion is a ‘derogatory’ term in Parliament... 👉 endsreport.com/1922369
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Hannah Bourne-Taylor *Author*Bird Campaigner @hannahbournetaylor.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
‘Lady Godiva of Swifts’ - love this article’s title! In 2024 I was chuffed to be added to the ENDS report Power List of campaigners. Here is an interview about my swift brick camapign, that has become a nation’s. www.endsreport.com/article/1922...
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Tess Colley @tesscolley.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
NEW: In an impassioned 30-min interview, I spoke to @hannahbournetaylor.bsky.social, the 'Lady Godiva of swifts', on what her efforts to save the ancient creatures reveal about who the decision-makers in govt are, and why passion is a ‘derogatory’ term in Parliament... 👉 endsreport.com/1922369
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