Fighting Dirty
We’re Fighting Dirty. Literally.
Fighting Dirty is a group of three environmental activists. Together we formed Fighting Dirty to use legal means to challenge loopholes enabling harmful pollution in our shared environment.
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- "The UK PFAS Action Plan falls short in addressing the crisis we face" @chemtrust.bsky.social chemtrust.org/uk_pfas_acti...
- This is not a sign of a functioning waste and resources system ... something is going horribly wrong. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
- We are keeping a close eye on this >>> Implementation plan (January 2026): Environment Agency's regulation of waste pneumatic tyres and their export www.gov.uk/government/p...
- "Water firms could be let off pollution fines as part of government overhaul" 😒 www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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- It's not a radical ask. That's why "most Britons believe that water companies should be responsible for ensuring sewage sludge spread on farmland is not contaminated" morningstaronline.co.uk/article/publ...
- This week we joined our amigos at @riveractionuk.bsky.social & @greenpeaceuk.bsky.social to deliver a petition to Emma Hardy. 70,000 people calling for a ban on toxic sewage sludge being spread on farmland, putting microplastics, pharmaceuticals and PFAS directly into food crops and the environment.
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- Horrifying > "waste legally dumped at Jameson Road landfill by AGC Chemicals until 2014 contained the potentially carcinogenic “forever chemical” perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA)" www.theguardian.com/environment/... As always, huge hat tip to @watershed-i.bsky.social
- At the heart of this story is this quote: "These chemicals aren’t regulated for..." Consider this a memo to Defra. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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- Our pathway, without policy change, is to a warmer world where we use more and more plastic. This spells double trouble. www.imperial.ac.uk/news/article...
- "could cause more deaths than jobs" 😲
- Listen to our Director @georgemonbiot.bsky.social on this week's @boldpolitics.bsky.social 👇
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- Is your supermarket using the Red Tractor to reassure its customers? 🏷️ 👀 We're helping @riveractionuk.bsky.social to expose the muck behind the mark - and it stinks! Tell your supermarket to call out Red Tractor & enforce real standards: 👉 upyourstandards.riveractionuk.com?utm_source=I...
- Brexit promised us higher environmental standards. Since Brexit though, the UK has often failed to meet the minimum standards set by the EU. Latest evidence shows the UK doubling exports of plastic waste to non-OCED countries while the EU has banned it. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
- Today is the first day we were meant to see 'enhanced verification' of tyres shipped from the UK to India. Typically, we would see 40 or so a day. Today, we saw ... 0! Our Founder has more >>> www.linkedin.com/posts/georgi...
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- They've been warned ... "Fighting Dirty to renew legal action if EA tyre reforms fail" www.mrw.co.uk/news/fightin... This is only possible, though, through donations (we are volunteer-run and not for profit) - monthly donations help fund our research between cases fightingdirty.org/donate/
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- NEW (and shocking): Our FOI request shows AGC Chemicals Europe, which is located near Blackpool, is still producing products containing PFOA and is releasing it to the air. www.endsreport.com/article/1932...
- Our Founder, @georgiaes.bsky.social "The fate of toxic liquids oozing out of old landfill sites is an enormous dirty secret between landfill owners, the EA, and water companies.” in today's Guardian >>> www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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- "many councils, including Caerphilly, have not updated their inspection strategies for potentially contaminated land on average since 2014" www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
- The plastics industry - those who make money from producing and distributing plastics - should never have been in the room to discuss a treaty that needed to limit and reduce the amount of plastic produced. Good on @greenpeace.org for calling this out. www.greenpeace.org/southeastasi...
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- "17 sites recorded elevated levels, in some cases thousands of times higher than proposed safe limits, as experts warn of potential risk to drinking water" www.theguardian.com/environment/...
- ICYMI :)
- "The true price is incalculable" Our Director @georgemonbiot.bsky.social rightly raising the alarm www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
- ICYMI - we're delighted to report a major campaign victory as Government announces plan to regulate ‘toxic’ sewage sludge fightingdirty.org/press-releas...
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- This is a huge victory 🎉 only made possible thanks to all of you who have supported our work. Legal cases cost money. If you can support our work please do fightingdirty.org/donate/ Needless to say we will be keeping an eye on this and making sure it is implemented in a timely way.
- UPDATE: The Environment Agency has told us that their review of their regulatory position for waste tyre exports (more on this here fightingdirty.org/major-victor...) will now be published on the 31st July - more than a month after they were originally aiming to. Watch this space.
- If you're not already following our amigos at @fidrango.bsky.social do now. They do incredibly important work.
- Inaction isn't an option 👇 “Every day of inaction locks in decades of pollution and environmental harm … we’re asking the UK government to turn off the tap of these persistent forever chemicals.” @fidrango.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/environment/...
- Inaction isn't an option 👇 “Every day of inaction locks in decades of pollution and environmental harm … we’re asking the UK government to turn off the tap of these persistent forever chemicals.” @fidrango.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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- Huge hat tip to our friends at @riveractionuk.bsky.social and Hugh for illustrating the issues here so clearly. If you're not already following @riveractionuk.bsky.social do now - they're campaign on #sewagesludge is taking our concerns on the subject to the heart of government!
- Thank you and 👋 to all our new followers (we're just 14 short of hitting 11,000). If you want to find out more about our work, have a read here fightingdirty.org/about-us/
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- TAKE ACTION: Sign the @greenpeaceuk.bsky.social/ @riveractionuk.bsky.social petition now to demand urgent action to stop the spread of toxic sewage sludge - and make water companies pay to clean up their mess. action.greenpeace.org.uk/toxic-sewage...
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- “Water company executives ... receive enormous payouts while environmental and health hazards are ignored ... this suggests a deliberate pay-to-pollute arrangement. It’s sickening that water companies struck a deal with Ofwat allowing them to pass clean-up costs to consumers." @georgiaes.bsky.social
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- Find out more about our work and how you can support. Together, we are Fighting Dirty. fightingdirty.org
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- Our Co-Founder @georgemonbiot.bsky.social isn't holding back: “Farmers are being deceived by the water companies … they’re being misled, and this could have very serious implications for their future livelihood, that their land could become unusable..." www.theguardian.com/environment/...
- "all of us, but particularly our children, are being exposed to microplastics and nanoplastics ... We’re being exposed to Pfas, we’re being exposed to pesticides. And the level of all of these things is mounting up all of the time.” @nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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- "Lime is used in waste water treatment for sludge treatment" www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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- We crowdfund our cases. Without your support, we can't take legal action. But that's only for the cases that end up in court. Between these cases, we need to pay for research, legal advice and outreach work. Can you support this work through a monthly donation? fightingdirty.org/donate/
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- They also "found high concentrations of propiconazole, a fungicide commonly used in agriculture, in the rivers." www.theguardian.com/environment/...
- Water companies have known about this for years >>> "Water companies are panicking they will be left unable to dispose of millions of tonnes of sewage sludge due to tougher pollution rules" unearthed.greenpeace.org/2025/06/09/s...
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- "Emma Howard-Boyd [former Chair of the EA] is one of 20 signatories to a statement published by Fighting Dirty, which calls on the environment secretary Steve Reed to update the testing regime and regulatory rules applied to sludge spreading on farmland" www.endsreport.com/article/1921...
