This photo of me with BBC South East gives you an idea of size of the Budds Farm No.2 storm water overflow (2x2m) which has discharged massive quantities of sewage and chemicals into protected marine habitats #EndSewagePollution photos @pearsallphoto & Clean Harbours Partnership

Littered vapes - what to do about it? We Marine Conservation Society with ASH Scotland Elliott Welch Keep Scotland Beautiful & Laura Anderson (Young) have created briefing: media.mcsuk.org/documents/Join… Please share & send to your MSP to join the call to #BanDisposableVapes & improve recycling for all other vapes.

We need to move #reuse to reduce our environmental impacts. The lack of transparency in McDonald's calculations means that we cant provide any analyses. New McDonald's study attempts to water down EU ambition on reuse | Break Free From Plastic breakfreefromplastic.org/2023/02/28/new…

There is more and more strong empirical evidence emerging concerning the coastal impact of sea spray aerosol transport of #PFAS. Data have been generated in Denmark, the Netherlands and Belgium. Check out this presentation by Danish scientists from NIRAS. naturvardsverket.se/4adb09/content…

Loved watching BBC #WildIsles last night. But did you know that the Northern Gannets from Bass rock shown in the episode are impacted by #PFAS? This study shows the presence of these forever chemicals in northern gannet eggs: sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

🚨BREAKING NEWS! 🚨 River Action has issued a legal claim in the High Court against the Environment Agency for failing to apply the Farming Rules for Water on the #RiverWye 👉 bit.ly/3TcTiXw 🧵

Time to get a grip on chemicals in our drinking water! US plans limits of PFAS forever chemicals of 4ng/l whereas in the UK it’s 100ng/l. 🤢 Story by me, leanahosea watershed_investigations theguardian.com/environment/20…

European environmental NGOs cheered in 2017 when @nicolasturgeon announced deposit return for Scotland. We were in the meetings, and we saw how inspirational that decision was. Today some of them wrote to Lorna Slater to support her work to deliver it. thenational.scot/news/23413456.…

Storm overflow data for England & Wales released today EA Director said: "The decrease in spills in 2022 is largely down to dry weather, not water company action" Over 300,000 spills in England in 2022 We want to #wildSwimming #surf & enjoy our #coast gov.uk/government/new…

🇬🇧 The UK’s plans for tackling PFAS pollution – are they good enough? 👉my latest blog for CHEM Trust chemtrust.org/uk-pfas-rmoa/ #BanPFAS

‘Forever chemicals’ linked to infertility in women, study shows theguardian.com/environment/20…

Today First Minister announced another delay to Scotland's deposit return scheme to March 2024. Our Marine Conservation Society vols found drinks related litter on 95% of beaches surveyed last year. Scotland's beaches continue to pay the price. We need everyone to come together to make this work.

Ever done a beach clean and found hundreds of this little plastic pre- production pellets? These are shipped around the world & lost overboard Sign this petition to stop this plastic pollution #nurdles and get them classified as Marine Pollutant by International Maritime Organization

🌊 We will be pushing ahead with our legal challenge to tackle the sewage crisis, despite the promises we have been hearing from water companies. Here's why ⬇️ glplive.org/CleanWaters_TW…

Spent 37 working days awaiting response to my FOI to EA on Emergency overflows (EO)- legal max is 20 EA insanely overworked & under resourced. How can EA fully investigate with such capacity? 1 in 3 EO England released raw 💩💩 62% of these repeatedly standard.co.uk/news/environme…

Victorian sewers not to blame for England’s pollution tinyurl.com/32vww5rs gillplimmer Financial Times Windrush WASP Peter Hammond Feargal Sharkey Sandra Laville Rhys Blakely Emma Gatten Daniel Capurro Prof Jamie Woodward Andrew Singer Prof Alex Ford WASP report tinyurl.com/3tunj4jf

The #CouncilClimateScorecards results are IN! 📊 Find out how well your own council is doing at: 👇 buff.ly/32Hw8D4

Budds Farm sewage treatment plant has been discharging the sewage waste of 400,000+ people for 160 hours continuous (~7 days & counting) into Langstone Harbour: a Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI), Special Area of Conservation (SAC) & Internat. RAMSAR site for rare birds

This is why it's so important to stop at source👇 Whether it's ensuring there are Deposit Return Schemes, capturing microfibres from washing machines or reducing microplastics lost from tyres to the environment.

Great meeting for launch of Climate Emergency UK successes report. Councils have crucial role in achieving #NetZero and the report gives some great case studies. Transition #NetZero has many challenges ahead but knowledge exchange is vital.