UK Nature and Environment

872 readers

78 users here now

General Instance Rules:

No racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia or xenophobia.
No incitement of violence or promotion of violent ideologies.
No harassment, dogpiling or doxxing of other users.
Do not share intentionally false or misleading information.
Do not spam or abuse network features.

Community Specific Rules:

Keep posts UK-specific. There are other places on Lemmy to post articles which relate to global environmental issues (e.g. slrpnk.net). Research carried out in the UK that affects the UK as well as elsewhere is acceptable.
Keep comments in English so that they can be appropriately moderated.

Note: Our temporary logo is from The Wildlife Trusts. We are not officially associated with them.

Our current banner is a shot of Walberswick marshes, Suffolk by GreyShuck.

founded 2 years ago

MODERATORS

GreyShuck@feddit.uk

Kim@feddit.uk

Hastings & Rye MP submits petition to ban plastic bio-beads (www.bbc.co.uk)

submitted 1 day ago by GreyShuck@feddit.uk to c/nature@feddit.uk

0 comments fedilink hide all child comments

An MP has handed a 10,000-signature petition in to Downing Street calling for a ban on plastic "bio-bead" use in wastewater treatment.

The move, by Hastings and Rye Labour MP Helena Dollimore, follows a major spill at a Southern Water site in October, after which millions of pellets washed up in Camber Sands and Rye Harbour Nature Reserve - and later, as far as St Mary's Bay.

Clean-up teams have said more than half the estimated spill, which poses a threat to wildlife, could still remain on beaches nearly seven months on.

no comments (yet)

sorted by: hot top controversial new old

there doesn't seem to be anything here