NEW: Lawyers ‘gathering views’ after government throws out all species protection proposals from own scientists www.endsreport.com/article/1944... with comment from @richardbenwell.bsky.social @jasonreeves80.bsky.social @ruthchambers.bsky.social

Catch Adnan Khan & me speaking to @katelaycock.bsky.social from Deutsche Welle's Inside Europe podcast about Boy Wasted - our podcast telling the story of a body found in a bale of plastic in Turkey - and what it has to do with us in western Europe. At 31 mins 👇 www.dw.com/en/inside-eu...

Great to hear @tesscolley.bsky.social and Adnan Khan discuss the findings of our podcast Boy Wasted on Inside Europe (31 mins in!) "9 million containers pass through British ports every year and there are five Environment Agency officers in England checking them" www.dw.com/en/inside-eu...

Was delighted to join a panel Labour Party conference this week to talk about ENDS' true crime investigation - Boy Wasted. The audience heard how our findings showed that plastic waste is a ‘public health emergency’ - not just an environmental one 👇 www.endsreport.com/article/1933...

Read my comment piece on what I saw at this year's Liverpudlian jambouree, and what it has to say about Labour's thinking on 'nature v housing'.. @endsreport.com www.endsreport.com/article/1934...

Labour Conference: ‘Houses should never have been built’ near the AGC chemicals factory in Blackpool the constituency MP told delegates The factory is currently at the centre of a contaminated land investigation in relation to PFAS pollution www.endsreport.com/article/1933...

If govt brings forward a new planning bill it will most likely be a 'Nature Bill' to replace EU-derived nature protections, a former No.10 advisor on housing told me at Lab Party Conference 👇 Gov says 'just speculation', but that's not the feeling on the ground.. www.endsreport.com/article/1934...

A mix of No Farmers No Food and anti-digital ID protestors - mostly all with the same Farmers to Action branded placards - plus lots of England and Union Jack flags thrown in, outside the opening day of Labour Party Conference yesterday

This is today! If you’re at Labour Conference come and join us at 2pm 👇

At the Labour Party Conference @barrygardiner.bsky.social MP is convening a panel I'll be speaking on to discuss the findings of Boy Wasted, and the tonnes of plastic we in the UK export abroad. 2pm at Solidarity Cafe in the Staybridge Suites on 28th Sept Come join! www.solidaritycafe.com

An MP is starting a campaign 'for real change' following a joint ENDS investigation revealing that 🚨 hundreds of boys & men have died 🚨 in recycling plants in Turkey – a top UK plastic export destination. He'll launch it at Labour Party conference with a panel... www.endsreport.com/article/1933...

🚨Are you going to Labour Party Conference? On Sunday, ENDS' @tesscolley.bsky.social, will be speaking on a panel at 2pm to discuss our new true crime podcast, Boy Wasted, and the issue of plastic exports, crime, and recycling. Join her at Solidarity Cafe ⬇️ solidaritycafe.com

🚨🎧📣🎙️Listen to the EcoChamber podcast to hear @tesscolley.bsky.social and I discuss my investigation into a chemical company near Blackpool, which is producing products containing a carcinogenic & banned chemical and emitting it to air (It's free to listen!) www.endsreport.com/article/1933...

'We thought we were looking into one mysterious body..but what emerged was a whole broken system full of criminality & death' Our Boy Wasted investigation reveals a bloody underworld at the bottom of your recycling bin. Listen wherever you get your podcasts. www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

I'm looking forward to attending this event at the Labour Party Conference next week, where Lucy Taylor and @tesscolley.bsky.social will discuss our Boy Wasted podcast. The event will be hosted by Labour MP and Environmental Audit Committee member Barry Gardiner www.solidaritycafe.com

The UK's biggest export is waste.. ..but the Environment Agency only has five full time port officers across all of England. This and more in our new true crime podcast - Boy Wasted. Listen to the series on @endsreport.com's Eco Chamber podcast feed now 👇 www.endsreport.com/article/1932...

🚨🚨Campaigners have called on the government to ban all plastic waste exports following a joint ENDS investigation out yesterday. It revealed hundreds of boys and men have been killed in recycling factories in Turkey - a top destination for UK waste exports👇 www.endsreport.com/article/1932...

What does the body of a boy found in a bale of plastic have to do with what you put in your recycling bin? More than you might like to think. Boy Wasted, a new true podcast that lifts the lid on the underbelly of the global plastics industry. 🎧 Wherever you get your podcasts - OUT NOW ❗

NEW: Calls for plastic exports ban as investigation reveals hundreds of boys and men killed in recycling factories in Turkey. Boy Wasted, our three-part podcast exposes hundreds of deaths in recycling facilities. Search for it now wherever you get your podcasts.

🔴 EXCLUSIVE 🔴 The Environment Agency is allowing a chemicals factory to produce products containing a globally banned PFAS chemical – and release it to air. 🧵

🚨 Boy Wasted, a new true crime podcast revealing a terrible truth about what we throw in our recycling bins, is *****out tomorrow*****. You don't want to miss it - subscribe to the Eco Chamber now to get it in your feed, wherever you get your podcasts 🎧

A bale of plastic. A mystery body. A global investigation. Next week we release something a bit special - 'Boy Wasted' - a new true crime podcast series. This has been a massive, heart-breaking project! Please share & subscribe to the Eco Chamber now to get it in your podcast feed.

Do you like true crime podcasts? Do you like the environment? Then listen to 'Boy Wasted', made by the team behind the BBC's Buried series. It all starts with a body found in a bale of plastic. Finding out who he was takes you into the depths of plastics industry. Subscribe to the ECO CHAMBER now

Do you like true crime podcasts? Do you like the environment? Then listen to 'Boy Wasted', made by the team behind the BBC's Buried series. It all starts with a body found in a bale of plastic. Finding out who he was takes you into the depths of plastics industry. Subscribe to the ECO CHAMBER now

A bale of plastic. A mystery body. A global investigation. Next week we release something a bit special - 'Boy Wasted' - a new true crime podcast series. This has been a massive, heart-breaking project! Please share & subscribe to the Eco Chamber now to get it in your podcast feed.

A bale of plastic. A mystery body. A global investigation. Boy Wasted - a new true-crime series - out next week. Subscribe to the Eco Chamber podcast now wherever you get your podcasts to get it in your feed.

Emma Reynolds, who this morning was city minister at the Treasury, is now environment secretary 👇

Chemical firms are lobbying MPs not to follow proposed EU ban on “forever chemicals” - their arguments are disputed by scientists and described as “big tobacco playbook” tactics By ‪@tesscolley.bsky.social and @pippaneill.bsky.social @endsreport.com www.theguardian.com/environment/...

🚨 EXCLUSIVE 🚨 Major chemical producers are lobbying UK MPs to back looser restrictions on 'forever chemicals' than those proposed in the EU - using arguments slammed by scientists. Read the investigation by me & @pippaneill.bsky.social in the Guardian, and... www.theguardian.com/environment/...

🚨 EXCLUSIVE 🚨 Major chemical producers are lobbying UK MPs to back looser restrictions on 'forever chemicals' than those proposed in the EU - using arguments slammed by scientists. Read the investigation by me & @pippaneill.bsky.social in the Guardian, and... www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Great new scoop from @pippaneill.bsky.social 👇🛫👇🛬👇

The Environment Agency has dropped its objection to controversial gas exploration plans in Yorkshire that campaigners have described as exploiting “a loophole in the government’s fracking moratorium”. Story by @tesscolley.bsky.social www.endsreport.com/article/1928...

“Farmers are being deceived by the water companies. They're being misled" - @georgemonbiot.bsky.social 22 tonnes of microplastics are dumped on farmland PER DAY via sludge - read this snapshot of my investigation outside the paywall (for a limited time!) www.endsreport.com/article/1924...

This includes staff at the regulator warning 3 years ago that practically all microplastics that enter sewage treatment works end up in sludge bound for farmland. My investigation has revealed that this is estimated to be 22 TONNES of microplastics per day. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

These docs have revealed the extent to which the EA has sought to persuade the government to implement its plans to tighten the regulatory net on sludge, including eye-watering evidence of the risk of not doing so - and how the agency was ignored. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Last year, lawyers representing @fightingdirty.bsky.social took the EA to court over whether its decision to remove a deadline for reforming sludge regulations was unlawful. The group lost its case - but via FOI I got hold of the docs submitted by the EA. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Read my full investigation on @endsreport.com for details on: ❗️The 22 TONNES of microplastics dumped on farms per day via sludge (equal in weight to about 3.6 MILLION plastic bags) 🇺🇸Why closure of sludge-impacted farms in the US should make the UK sit up THREAD🧵 www.endsreport.com/article/1923...

🚨EXCLUSIVE🚨 After obtaining reams of internal docs, I have a new story out revealing how govt has sat for three years on plans to tighten rules letting water companies SELL sewage sludge contaminated with PFAS & microplastics. Read it in @theguardian.com, and.. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Huge news ⚠️ The government has sat on plans to tighten sewage sludge rules for 3 YEARS despite the EA warning of serious contamination from pollutants like #PFAS & #microplastics! Read @tesscolley.bsky.social's investigation (outside our paywall - for now!) ⬇️ www.endsreport.com/article/1924752

We might have lost our court case, but the papers arising from it, analysed by the brilliant Tess Colley, are a goldmine of information about the disgraceful way in which farmers have been misled by the water companies and ministers have failed to act. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

22 tonnes of microplastics are dumped on farms PER DAY via sewage sludge, my latest investigation has revealed. Emails and docs I obtained through FOI have exposed how this and other alarming warnings from the EA have been sat on for years. Read the story 👇 www.theguardian.com/environment/...

🚨EXCLUSIVE🚨 After obtaining reams of internal docs, I have a new story out revealing how govt has sat for three years on plans to tighten rules letting water companies SELL sewage sludge contaminated with PFAS & microplastics. Read it in @theguardian.com, and.. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

INTERVIEW 🗣️ As the Planning Bill returns to Parliament, read what @hannahbournetaylor.bsky.social - the 'Lady Godiva of swifts' - told ENDS' @tesscolley.bsky.social about what her efforts to save the ancient creatures reveal about who decision-makers are in government... endsreport.com/1922369

NEW: In an impassioned 30-min interview, I spoke to @hannahbournetaylor.bsky.social, the 'Lady Godiva of swifts', on what her efforts to save the ancient creatures reveal about who the decision-makers in govt are, and why passion is a ‘derogatory’ term in Parliament... 👉 endsreport.com/1922369

‘Lady Godiva of Swifts’ - love this article’s title! In 2024 I was chuffed to be added to the ENDS report Power List of campaigners. Here is an interview about my swift brick camapign, that has become a nation’s. www.endsreport.com/article/1922...

NEW: In an impassioned 30-min interview, I spoke to @hannahbournetaylor.bsky.social, the 'Lady Godiva of swifts', on what her efforts to save the ancient creatures reveal about who the decision-makers in govt are, and why passion is a ‘derogatory’ term in Parliament... 👉 endsreport.com/1922369

We are proud to share that ENDS Report won BIG at AOP Digital Publishing Awards last night! #AOPAwards25 🎉🏆 The team took home B2B Editorial Team of the Year and our news editor @pippaneill.bsky.social was crowned journalist of the year 🌟 Huge thanks to the judges, and to our readers 🙌

SPENDING REVIEW: DEFRA handed one of biggest real-term resource budget cuts across government www.endsreport.com/article/1921...

Delighted to have won the best section editor award at the British Society of Magazine Editors awards! The judges said my work leading @endsreport.com's long-form journalism "demonstrated ambitious, investigative journalism that packed a punch through story-telling & had real-world impact". Nice!

Read the full investigation on @endsreport.com here ⬇️ www.endsreport.com/article/1918...