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 research reveals an unappreciated public health crisis: people living in slums in the developing world are increasingly burning the toxic plastic trash that surrounds their communities as a last-resort fuel to cook and heat their homes.
Burning Plastic Waste for Household Fuel Endangers Millions - Inside Climate News
People in low-income urban communities in the Global South without access to reliable energy sources are burning the toxic plastic waste inundating their communities to cook and heat their homes.
insideclimatenews.org
January 10, 2026 at 12:16 AM
New research reveals an unappreciated public health crisis: people living in slums in the developing world are increasingly burning the toxic plastic trash that surrounds their communities as a last-resort fuel to cook and heat their homes.
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One farmer describes becoming "increasingly concerned" as he learned the sewage sludge fertiliser he'd understood was safe to spread on fields was "laced with household chemicals & industrial wastes, often described as forever chemicals because they break down so slowly in the soil."
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...
morningstaronline.co.uk/article/publ...
Public demand water firms ensure safe sewage sludge on farmland
MOST Britons believe that water companies should be responsible for ensuring sewage sludge spread on farmland is not contaminated, according to new polling published today.Sewage sludge is sold as a l...
morningstaronline.co.uk
January 14, 2026 at 6:29 PM
One farmer describes becoming "increasingly concerned" as he learned the sewage sludge fertiliser he'd understood was safe to spread on fields was "laced with household chemicals & industrial wastes, often described as forever chemicals because they break down so slowly in the soil."
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...
morningstaronline.co.uk/article/publ...
Public demand water firms ensure safe sewage sludge on farmland
MOST Britons believe that water companies should be responsible for ensuring sewage sludge spread on farmland is not contaminated, according to new polling published today.Sewage sludge is sold as a l...
morningstaronline.co.uk
January 14, 2026 at 2:44 PM
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...
morningstaronline.co.uk/article/publ...
Thanks Jill - we rely on people power to make our campaigns work. So thank you for your kind words.
January 14, 2026 at 2:41 PM
Thanks Jill - we rely on people power to make our campaigns work. So thank you for your kind words.
You can add your name to the petition here action.greenpeace.org.uk/toxic-sewage...
Sign the petition
Water companies MUST pay to fix their mess and stop contaminating our soil!
action.greenpeace.org.uk
December 19, 2025 at 12:47 PM
You can add your name to the petition here action.greenpeace.org.uk/toxic-sewage...
You can read more about our campaign around sewage sludge here > fightingdirty.org/campaigns/to...
Toxic Sewage Sludge: Fighting for Safe Farmland | Fighting Dirty
fightingdirty.org
December 19, 2025 at 12:46 PM
You can read more about our campaign around sewage sludge here > fightingdirty.org/campaigns/to...
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.
December 19, 2025 at 12:46 PM
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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The inevitable consequences of the unregulated spreading of toxic sewage sludge on UK farms.
@fightingdirty.bsky.social
@fightingdirty.bsky.social
More than 520 chemicals found in English soil, including long-banned medical substances
Fertilising arable land with human waste leaves array of toxins that could re-enter food chain, study finds
www.theguardian.com
December 3, 2025 at 11:49 AM
The inevitable consequences of the unregulated spreading of toxic sewage sludge on UK farms.
@fightingdirty.bsky.social
@fightingdirty.bsky.social
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
As always, huge hat tip to @watershed-i.bsky.social
‘I kept smelling a horrible nasty smell’: the risks of England’s old dumping grounds
For some, the smell brings on nausea and headaches. Others fear ‘forever chemicals’ seeping into the water
www.theguardian.com
December 4, 2025 at 12:06 PM
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
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/...
Consider this a memo to Defra.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
More than 520 chemicals found in English soil, including long-banned medical substances
Fertilising arable land with human waste leaves array of toxins that could re-enter food chain, study finds
www.theguardian.com
December 4, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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/...
Consider this a memo to Defra.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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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...
Creating more jobs than deaths should be a minimum standard. Someone should regulate around that ...
November 21, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Creating more jobs than deaths should be a minimum standard. Someone should regulate around that ...
"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
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/b...
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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www.endsreport.com/article/1932...
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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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www.endsreport.com/article/1932...
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www.endsreport.com/article/1932...
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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/...
As ever, all of this monitoring, research and preparing for our legal cases cost money. If you can donate a small amount monthly this really helps us fightingdirty.org/donate/
Donate | Fighting Dirty
fightingdirty.org
October 1, 2025 at 8:33 PM
As ever, all of this monitoring, research and preparing for our legal cases cost money. If you can donate a small amount monthly this really helps us fightingdirty.org/donate/
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.
3/4
www.endsreport.com/article/1932...
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www.endsreport.com/article/1932...