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Earth Day: A little plastic goes a long way

  • 22.04.21
  • Rebecca Duncan
As part of our Preventing Plastic Pollution Project, we’ve launched a new animation ​“A little plastic goes a long way” to demonstrate the journey of plastic waste from source to sea. The video shows a plastic bottle, dropped by a riverbed on a mountainside, which travels all the way down to the seashore.

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Sewage update: 2020 spill data added to our map

  • 07.04.21
  • Rebecca Duncan

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Measures to reduce harm from sewage pollution to be made law

  • 29.03.21
  • Emily Cooper

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Blog from Mark Lloyd: It will take more than Water Companies to clean up our overflowing sewers, we need nature too

  • 19.11.20
  • Emily Cooper
There are many sources of pollution that blight our rivers: farm slurry; soil from compacted, over-grazed and tilled fields; industrial effluent; pesticides and road run off.

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