Consultation description – Commonly littered items ‘The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) wants to gather evidence around commonly littered single-use plastic items to help inform future policy decisions. We are interested in your views on single-use plastic items, especially: wet wipes, tobacco filters, sachets and single-use cups We are also asking for […]
Bob Earll ‘This is a huge issue and there is a growing awareness of the problems and costs. Whether a labelling scheme will solve this is another matter. ‘Fine to flush’ sends a conflicted message. Time will tell. Better than what went before. Seeing the problem first hand from an Anglian video is interesting’ Water […]
Devon’s ‘largest ever’ fatberg discovered in Sidmouth sewer An unwanted Christmas present of hardened fat, oil and wet-wipes longer than six double-decker buses, has been discovered in a Sidmouth sewer under The Esplanade. The 64-metre fatberg is the biggest ever discovered in Devon or Cornwall and is thought to be one of the largest found […]
The scale of the problem of the problem caused by flushing ‘unflushables’ seems to be growing. MCS through their citizen science monitoring of beaches have highlighted the number of wet wipes that make it that far but the real problem lies with the blockages these and other items are creating. The question arises of whether […]