Nearly a year ago at the height of the UK floods, tragedy struck an ordinary family in Surrey as toxic gas from a nearby landfill site killed a 7-year old boy, Zane. Now the authorities appear determined to exculpate the source of the poison - an old landfill site - even as they prepare for a massive increase in hazardous waste from fracking.
… Toxic landfills, fracking and the lethal threat of … Health Fracking Corporations Politics UK landfill-cut.jpg Nearly a year ago at the … family in Surrey as toxic gas from a nearby landfill site killed a 7-year old boy, Zane. …
As Cameron 'cuts the green crap' Paul Mobbs remembers how the decisions of a Conservative government 20 years ago to go easy on the owners of contaminated land and old waste dumps have led to present day blight, ill-health and death. Now brow-beaten regulators and politicians in hock to party funders are doing it all over again.
… Death by landfill - cutting 'green tape' … to the chemical plants of Teeside, to the landfills of South Wales. The point at which I … for the area, denied that the site had been landfilled. If you go to the Environment …
The apparent conspiracy by the UK government and its agencies to conceal the real cause of death of 7-year old Zane Gbangbola may go right up to Prime Minister David Cameron, writes Paul Mobbs. He was chair of the COBRA emergency committee at the time when it appears to have held back the truth that he was killed by cyanide from the toxic landfill site his home was built over.
… Zane: did Cameron order cover-up on landfill cyanide death of 7-year old? Paul … Pollution Cities Politics Law UK selly-oak-landfill-cut.jpg The apparent conspiracy by … that he was killed by cyanide from the toxic landfill site his home was built over. Almost …
Every Hallowe'en the UK throws away enough pumpkin to make 360 million portions of pumpkin pie, soup, or cake, writes Gavin Ellis - a shocking waste in these hungry times. Hence a bold new initiative to rescue all those pumpkins from landfill, and turn them into delicious food we can all enjoy as part of our seasonal festivities.
… initiative to rescue all those pumpkins from landfill, and turn them into delicious food we … 18,000 tonnes of pumpkin was sent to landfill sites in the UK last Hallowe'en, … the amount of edible food that gets sent to landfill. New research by Populus shows that …
The shocking death of Zane Gbangbola, killed by toxic gas from a 'forgotten' landfill under his home, exposes the UK's dangerous legacy of contaminated land, writes Paul Mobbs. Without action, these polluted sites will damage health and even kill for centuries to come. But governments, local authorities, landowners and developers are united in a shameful policy of silence and denial.
… killed by toxic gas from a 'forgotten' landfill under his home, exposes the UK's … hopefully from that some recommendations on landfill. We will fight to get Zane a … a large area of gravel workings and 'wet tip' landfill. As the gravel was extracted, waste …
The cash-strapped Cumbrian Museum is rebranded to tell 'The Sellafield Story'. The UK's favourite scientist Brian Cox and Government Minister Baroness Verma provide razzmatazz along with the Happy Robot. Lollypops anyone?
… is routinely dumping radioactive rubble in landfill, not just any old landfill but ironically the one right next … one bag of intermediate level waste into the landfill instead of newly classified 'exempt' …
Just over one week ago, the Ecologist posted a story on its website detailing the Environment Agency's failure to sue Monsanto for dumping tonnes of highly toxic chemicals in a Welsh landfill site.
… Monsanto Risk UK Industrial Pesticides Landfills Fresh Water Health Politics And … tonnes of highly toxic chemicals in a Welsh landfill site. …
Activists in Gloucestershire are battling to block the construction of a massive incinerator that they see as a blight on the landscape, costly, polluting, wasteful and undermining recycling, writes Dan Hinge. Now the fight, backed by superstar actor Jeremy Irons, just entered a new phase after a tribunal forced the County Council to reveal essential details of the contract it had signed.
… electricity. It has many advantages over landfill, offering a lower cost per tonne of … rates. Furthermore, with EU laws requiring landfill to be phased out, councils do need to … the Council compared the incinerator only to landfill when building its value for money …
Last week's 'War on Waste' - throwaway coffee cups were the deserving target - was an exemplar of effective single-issue campaigning by Hugh Fearnley Whittingstall. But the answers to our waste problems go way beyond recycling. We must begin to plan a societal transition to a post-consumer culture of caring, sharing, and knowing when we have enough.
… place'. This is a helpful way to think about landfill: a mass grave of potential resources, … season, unfit clothing that is thrown away to landfill each year. The elephant in the room …
In its haste to get fracking, the UK Government is neglecting safe, clean alternatives that could be providing low-carbon gas and heat energy, writes Keith Barnham. The technologies are already well established in other European countries and are picking up fast here too - so why the insistence that only fossil fuels can deliver the UK's energy needs?
… anaerobic digestion (AD) and from sewage and landfill waste. One reason for the far lower … the waste left to rot in on the farm or in landfill. In contrast to fracking, AD plants … point out that biogas from sewage and landfill waste generates cheaper electricity …
Britain's 20th century architecture is in danger of obliteration, writes Sebastian Messer, with a 'new brutalism' that holds that socially deprived council estates are fit only for demolition. But these buildings are an important part of our cultural heritage, and more than that, they provide affordable housing to millions of people.
… to cart off millions of tonnes of concrete to landfill. It is also more sustainable, due to … to cart off millions of tonnes of concrete to landfill. It is also more sustainable, …
Following this month's intense rainfall in the north of England an Environment Agency alert has highlighted the flood risk to the crumbling nuclear waste dump adjoining Sellafield in Cumbria, writes Marianne Birkby - a dump which remains in use despite its condemnation by the EA in 2005 due to its likely destruction by rising seas. Now it really is time to close the gate on Drigg!
… flood waters entering the site, eroding the landfill and contaminating land, river and and …
Britain's trade in waste plastic to the Far East is booming. But it's not good news. The exported plastic is meant to be recycled under UK conditions and standards, but often is not, undermining bona fide UK recycling firms who face falling prices, reduced turnover, collapsing profits, and all too often, closure.
… thus allowing them to avoid paying UK landfill taxes. In September 2016 Sir James …
The UK will soon complete a record year for solar installations, almost doubling the nation's solar capacity. But drastic and overtly discriminatory changes to support for renewables may see solar installations collapse to 1% of current levels.
… - a category that includes onshore wind, landfill gas, hydro and solar - to compete …
A ruling in the US courts at a meeting which the Environment Agency claims never took place has dashed all hopes of making Monsanto pay up for polluting Brofiscin quarry in Wales. Is the Agency guilty of obstructing the course of justice? Jon Hughes investigates
… Groesfaen, South Wales – one of at least 12 landfill sites in the UK where Monsanto dumped …
A ruling in the US courts at a meeting which the Environment Agency claims never took place has dashed all hopes of making Monsanto pay up for polluting Brofiscin quarry in Wales. Is the Agency guilty of obstructing the course of justice? Jon Hughes investigates
… Groesfaen, South Wales – one of at least 12 landfill sites in the UK where Monsanto dumped …
Maria Evrenos left her wallet at home for a week to discover that even an inexperienced urban forager can survive without money for a week by treasuring other people's trash.
… only 115 million tonnes gets recycled. Landfill sites already cover 109 square miles, …
The EU faces a choice: a green, democratic future of clean prosperity and social justice? Or a dirty future of corporate domination with resurgent nuclear power, expanding fossil fuels, GMO agriculture and weak human and environmental protection? Junckers' Commission represents the latter. We must assert our own vision - or there will be little worth staying in for.
… 'circular economy' package to reduce waste to landfill and increase recycling would get …
A Parliamentary report reveals that £200 million has been wasted on failed 'public-private' PFI projects for waste management, writes David Hall. The obvious solution: to allow local authorities to build and operate their own, which is cheaper and more flexible. The only problem: under UK government rules, it's PFI or nothing.
… for reducing the amount of waste sent to landfill." In Sweden, Germany and Denmark, …
After a succession of the hottest years and months ever recorded, climate is a hot topic, writes Liz Hutchins. But BBC1's 'Big Questions' climate change debate last Sunday completely missed the point. Instead of debating the only real question - how should we respond? - the BBC ran yet another repeat of the so-over 'believers versus deniers' ding-dong. Why do they still not get it?
… a toxic slurry in the oceans and bloating landfill sites? If we only used the …