Fighting Dirty
@fightingdirty.bsky.social
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.
https://fightingdirty.org/
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.
https://fightingdirty.org/
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Fighting Dirty
@fightingdirty.bsky.social
· Nov 20
We're Fighting Dirty. Best known for taking the Environment Agency to court over the spreading of sewage sludge.
Our Founding Directors are @georgemonbiot.bsky.social @stevehyndside.bsky.social and Georgia Elliott-Smith
You can find out more about our work and how to support fightingdirty.org
Our Founding Directors are @georgemonbiot.bsky.social @stevehyndside.bsky.social and Georgia Elliott-Smith
You can find out more about our work and how to support fightingdirty.org
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NEW! Vast swathes of Europe’s water reserves are drying up, two decades of satellite data reveals, with freshwater storage shrinking across Europe
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Revealed: Europe’s water reserves drying up due to climate breakdown
Exclusive: UCL scientists find large swathes of southern Europe are drying up, with ‘far-reaching’ implications
www.theguardian.com
November 29, 2025 at 1:35 PM
NEW! Vast swathes of Europe’s water reserves are drying up, two decades of satellite data reveals, with freshwater storage shrinking across Europe
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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...
Plastic pollution is worsened by warming climate and must be stemmed, researchers warn
Increased toxicity from plastic pollution in a warmer climate is highly likely to be affecting whole ecosystems, with potentially disproportionate im...
www.imperial.ac.uk
November 27, 2025 at 11:50 AM
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" 😲
The plant, would make ethylene for plastics manufacture - likely to cause ammonia, ozone, nitrogen oxide + PM2.5 pollution - linked to increased cases of heart + breathing conditions - and carcinogenic VOCs - risking people's health says @clientearth.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Pollution from Ineos’s Antwerp plastic plant ‘could cause more deaths than jobs created’
Lawyers challenge €4bn Project One development, saying emissions and health impacts vastly underestimated
www.theguardian.com
November 21, 2025 at 11:26 AM
"could cause more deaths than jobs" 😲
Listen to our Director @georgemonbiot.bsky.social on this week's @boldpolitics.bsky.social 👇
Delighted that 2 of my colleagues from two different parts of my life (@fightingdirty.bsky.social & @greenparty.org.uk) have come together for this must listen podcast.
So much love and respect for both @georgemonbiot.bsky.social and @zackpolanski.bsky.social
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So much love and respect for both @georgemonbiot.bsky.social and @zackpolanski.bsky.social
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/b...
How Labour Negate Progressive Ideas Through ‘Divide and Rule’ | George Monbiot | Zack Polanski
Podcast Episode · Bold Politics with Zack Polanski · 19/11/2025 · 40m
podcasts.apple.com
November 19, 2025 at 10:49 AM
Listen to our Director @georgemonbiot.bsky.social on this week's @boldpolitics.bsky.social 👇
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But, since then, emails seen by @fightingdirty.bsky.social @georgemonbiot.bsky.social @georgiaes.bsky.social reveal the firm admitting to the EA that PFOA is produced as a by-product of making another PFAS at the plant. As reported by @pippaneill.bsky.social
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Reap What You Sow: Exposing Lancashire's toxic town
A new ENDS investigation reveals that the Environment Agency is allowing a chemicals factory to produce products containing a carcinogenic forever chemical. But how did we get here?
www.endsreport.com
October 19, 2025 at 1:03 PM
But, since then, emails seen by @fightingdirty.bsky.social @georgemonbiot.bsky.social @georgiaes.bsky.social reveal the firm admitting to the EA that PFOA is produced as a by-product of making another PFAS at the plant. As reported by @pippaneill.bsky.social
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Unpublished documents, shared exclusively with ENDS' by @fightingdirty.bsky.social, showed that the Environment Agency is allowing the factory to produce products containing PFOA - and release it to the air - despite it being globally banned.
Read more about the investigation here ⬇️
Read more about the investigation here ⬇️
REVEALED: EA allowing factory to produce products with banned PFAS – and release it to air
<b>EXCLUSIVE:</b> The Environment Agency (EA) is allowing a chemicals factory to produce products containing a carcinogenic forever chemical - and release it to the air - despite it being globally ban...
www.endsreport.com
October 9, 2025 at 10:19 AM
Unpublished documents, shared exclusively with ENDS' by @fightingdirty.bsky.social, showed that the Environment Agency is allowing the factory to produce products containing PFOA - and release it to the air - despite it being globally banned.
Read more about the investigation here ⬇️
Read more about the investigation here ⬇️
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...
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...
Home - Up Your Standards!
Contact your supermarket today to tell them to call out Red Tractor, and pave the way for robust environmental standards on their products.
upyourstandards.riveractionuk.com
October 17, 2025 at 10:10 AM
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...
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/...
Latest evidence shows the UK doubling exports of plastic waste to non-OCED countries while the EU has banned it.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
UK plastic waste exports to developing countries rose 84% in a year, data shows
Campaigners say increase in exports mostly to Malaysia and Indonesia is ‘unethical and irresponsible waste imperialism’
www.theguardian.com
October 8, 2025 at 7:39 AM
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/...
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...
Our Founder has more >>> www.linkedin.com/posts/georgi...
October 1, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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...
Our Founder has more >>> www.linkedin.com/posts/georgi...
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THIS IS SHOCKING! 😳
See those white and blue pieces? That’s plastic.... In sewage sludge that is being spread on our farmland and often ending up in our rivers. 💩😱
🛑 THIS NEEDS TO STOP 🛑 Add your name to the petition - act.gp/4nHfsAc
📸 Credit: Fighting Dirty
#SewageSludge #ToxicSludge
See those white and blue pieces? That’s plastic.... In sewage sludge that is being spread on our farmland and often ending up in our rivers. 💩😱
🛑 THIS NEEDS TO STOP 🛑 Add your name to the petition - act.gp/4nHfsAc
📸 Credit: Fighting Dirty
#SewageSludge #ToxicSludge
September 30, 2025 at 10:25 AM
THIS IS SHOCKING! 😳
See those white and blue pieces? That’s plastic.... In sewage sludge that is being spread on our farmland and often ending up in our rivers. 💩😱
🛑 THIS NEEDS TO STOP 🛑 Add your name to the petition - act.gp/4nHfsAc
📸 Credit: Fighting Dirty
#SewageSludge #ToxicSludge
See those white and blue pieces? That’s plastic.... In sewage sludge that is being spread on our farmland and often ending up in our rivers. 💩😱
🛑 THIS NEEDS TO STOP 🛑 Add your name to the petition - act.gp/4nHfsAc
📸 Credit: Fighting Dirty
#SewageSludge #ToxicSludge
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AGC Chemicals, near Blackpool, is still producing products containing the globally banned chemical PFOA, and emitting this to the air
For Georgia Elliot-Smith, of @fightingdirty.bsky.social, this issue is black and white
"There should be no discussion here”
www.endsreport.com/article/1932...
For Georgia Elliot-Smith, of @fightingdirty.bsky.social, this issue is black and white
"There should be no discussion here”
www.endsreport.com/article/1932...
Reap What You Sow: Exposing Lancashire's toxic town
A new ENDS investigation reveals that the Environment Agency is allowing a chemicals factory to produce products containing a carcinogenic forever chemical. But how did we get here?
www.endsreport.com
September 18, 2025 at 10:11 AM
AGC Chemicals, near Blackpool, is still producing products containing the globally banned chemical PFOA, and emitting this to the air
For Georgia Elliot-Smith, of @fightingdirty.bsky.social, this issue is black and white
"There should be no discussion here”
www.endsreport.com/article/1932...
For Georgia Elliot-Smith, of @fightingdirty.bsky.social, this issue is black and white
"There should be no discussion here”
www.endsreport.com/article/1932...
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/
"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/
Fighting Dirty to renew legal action if EA tyre reforms fail | MRW
Speaking at the TRA’s annual conference, campaign leader Georgia Elliott-Smith said regulator must follow through on promised changes
www.mrw.co.uk
September 18, 2025 at 8:23 AM
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/
"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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Now information acquired by @fightingdirty.bsky.social + shared with @pippaneill.bsky.social reveals AGC may have been aware of PFAS contamination around the site for decades before reporting by Watershed brought this pollution to light.
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www.endsreport.com/article/1932...
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www.endsreport.com/article/1932...
Reap What You Sow: Exposing Lancashire's toxic town
A new ENDS investigation reveals that the Environment Agency is allowing a chemicals factory to produce products containing a carcinogenic forever chemical. But how did we get here?
www.endsreport.com
September 15, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Now information acquired by @fightingdirty.bsky.social + shared with @pippaneill.bsky.social reveals AGC may have been aware of PFAS contamination around the site for decades before reporting by Watershed brought this pollution to light.
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A must read thead ...
🔴 EXCLUSIVE 🔴 The Environment Agency is allowing a chemicals factory to produce products containing a globally banned PFAS chemical – and release it to air.
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September 18, 2025 at 8:20 AM
A must read thead ...
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...
REVEALED: EA allowing factory to produce products with banned PFAS – and release it to air
<b>EXCLUSIVE:</b> The Environment Agency (EA) is allowing a chemicals factory to produce products containing a carcinogenic forever chemical - and release it to the air - despite it being globally ban...
www.endsreport.com
September 18, 2025 at 8:18 AM
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/...
Thousands of tonnes of toxic landfill liquid added to sewage and spread on English farms
Exclusive: Leachate is tankered to treatment works where it mixes with sewage and industrial effluent
www.theguardian.com
September 12, 2025 at 9:22 PM
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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A massive, dangerous and disgusting scandal, of which far too few people are yet aware. At @fightingdirty.bsky.social we'll keep pushing to stop it. Congrats to @rachelsalvidge.bsky.social for continuing to shine the light:
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Thousands of tonnes of toxic landfill liquid added to sewage and spread on English farms
Exclusive: Leachate is tankered to treatment works where it mixes with sewage and industrial effluent
www.theguardian.com
September 12, 2025 at 5:50 AM
A massive, dangerous and disgusting scandal, of which far too few people are yet aware. At @fightingdirty.bsky.social we'll keep pushing to stop it. Congrats to @rachelsalvidge.bsky.social for continuing to shine the light:
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
"many councils, including Caerphilly, have not updated their inspection strategies for potentially contaminated land on average since 2014" www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com
September 2, 2025 at 6:37 AM
"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...
www.greenpeace.org/southeastasi...
Still no Plastics Treaty: How the fossil fuel industry keeps polluting negotiations - Greenpeace Southeast Asia
It’s time for world leaders to confront the elephant in the UN Global Plastics Treaty negotiation room: Big Oil.
www.greenpeace.org
August 21, 2025 at 10:56 AM
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...
www.greenpeace.org/southeastasi...
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For campaign groups like @fightingdirty.bsky.social @fidrango.bsky.social @wclnews.bsky.social & the many people in the EA who have been calling for a review of biosolid use for years, these represent significant moves in the right direction.
4/7
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‘A Trojan horse’: how toxic sewage sludge became a threat to the future of British farming
Sludge used as fertiliser on farmland contains harmful chemicals that scientists suspect are entering food chain
www.theguardian.com
August 15, 2025 at 4:14 PM
For campaign groups like @fightingdirty.bsky.social @fidrango.bsky.social @wclnews.bsky.social & the many people in the EA who have been calling for a review of biosolid use for years, these represent significant moves in the right direction.
4/7
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
4/7
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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/...
‘Alarmingly high’ levels of forever chemicals found at airports in England, investigation reveals
Exclusive: 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
August 15, 2025 at 8:23 AM
"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 :)
Excellent news: our legal action has succeeded. The government is changing its policy on the export of waste tyres, to stop them being diverted into highly polluting and dangerous pyrolysis plants. @fightingdirty.bsky.social
is a tiny group, getting big wins.
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is a tiny group, getting big wins.
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Campaign Win! Environment Agency Admits Failings in UK Tyre Export Regulation, Changes to be Introduced Following Fighting Dirty Action | Fighting Dirty
Environmental campaign group Fighting Dirty has today welcomed the findings of a long-awaited internal review by the Environment Agency, which confirms the EA failed to ensure it was fulfilling its le...
fightingdirty.org
August 14, 2025 at 8:10 AM
ICYMI :)
"The true price is incalculable"
Our Director @georgemonbiot.bsky.social rightly raising the alarm www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Our Director @georgemonbiot.bsky.social rightly raising the alarm www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Want to import toxic chemicals into Britain with scant scrutiny? Labour says: go right ahead | George Monbiot
Jacob Rees-Mogg’s Tory fantasy of a post-Brexit bonfire of regulations is coming true. Our bodies and ecosystems will pay the price, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
www.theguardian.com
July 24, 2025 at 1:29 PM
"The true price is incalculable"
Our Director @georgemonbiot.bsky.social rightly raising the alarm www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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...
Press Release: Fighting Dirty wins major campaign victory as Government announces plan to regulate ‘toxic’ sewage sludge | Fighting Dirty
The campaigning environmental group, Fighting Dirty, is today celebrating a landmark victory following the release of the long-awaited Independent Water Commission Report, which recommends regulating ...
fightingdirty.org
July 23, 2025 at 7:58 AM
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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The environmental campaign group, Fighting Dirty, is celebrating a "landmark victory" following the release of the Independent Water Commission Report. It recommends regulating sewage sludge - poured onto farmland and then polluting waterways - under the Environmental Permitting Regime (EPR)
July 22, 2025 at 9:19 AM
The environmental campaign group, Fighting Dirty, is celebrating a "landmark victory" following the release of the Independent Water Commission Report. It recommends regulating sewage sludge - poured onto farmland and then polluting waterways - under the Environmental Permitting Regime (EPR)