06 Nov 2019
River Interceptor Ocean Cleanup and their young entrepreneur Boyan Slat have been battling away with boom and screen technology systems in the Pacific garbage patch with limited success and much criticism for their lack of environmental assessment. Perhaps more sensibly in releasing this ‘Interceptor’ device which operates in rivers they can make a much bigger […]
22 Oct 2019
Hubbub Businesses, residents and organisations situated along five of the UK’s biggest rivers are being invited to join the largest ever collaborative effort to prevent and reduce the amount of litter entering the UK’s waterways, and subsequently the ocean. The Treasure Your River campaign is being run by environmental charity Hubbub and funded by The Coca-Cola Foundation, primary international […]
13 Oct 2019
Michael Stachowitsch on “The Beachcomber’s Guide to Marine Debris” This richly illustrated book serves as the ideal guide to the items that litter the world’s beaches. Forget sea shells and other fauna and flora. Here, you will find what a beachcomber is actually most likely to encounter these days: glass, plastic, wood, metal, paper, oil, […]
17 Sep 2019
Anglian Water has been ordered to pay £156,000 for sewage pollution. The court found that negligence and a lack of maintenance were to blame for the pollution of a Northamptonshire brook. The pollution occurred over 2 days in August 2016, when at least a kilometre and a half of Grendon Brook was contaminated with sewage. […]
21 Aug 2019
Letter to The Times from Emma Howard Boyd, Chair of Environment Agency Response from the Chair to The Times’ article “Toothless Environment Agency lets farmers pollute rivers”, 17 August. PROTECTING OUR RIVERS AND STREAMS Your latest attack on the Environment Agency (“Toothless Environment Agency lets farmers pollute rivers”, 17 August) is another misleading mix of […]
10 Jul 2019
Environment Agency tells water companies to clean up their act and protect the environment from pollution. Water company efforts to protect the environment were described as ‘simply unacceptable’ in an Environment Agency (EA) report published today (10 July) with only 1 of the major water and sewage companies in England performing at the level expected. […]
27 Jun 2019
Sir James Bevan warns companies to improve their pollution performance Environment Agency (EA) Chief Executive Sir James Bevan has warned water companies to improve their pollution performance, saying: “If companies cannot operate without damaging the environment, they will rightly lose their social licence to operate.” Bevan, in a speech at the Water Industry Forum in Birmingham, said the […]
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