Georgia Elliott-Smith
@georgiaes.bsky.social
Enviromental justice campaigner, engineer, founder of Fighting Dirty @fightingdirty.bsky.social.
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November 12, 2025 at 10:51 AM
This event brings together the world's leading defence, food security, economics, ecology & climate experts. All UK MPs are invited, but many haven't RSVP'd. Send your MP a quick prompt here www.nebriefing.org so they can learn about tangible threats to UK citizens and how to protect us
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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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Great news. At
@fightingdirty.bsky.social we lost our court case on sewage sludge spreading, but now we're winning by other means.
It's crazy that it took so long, but shows that persistence pays. Please support FD if you can. Thanks.
fightingdirty.org/press-releas...
@fightingdirty.bsky.social we lost our court case on sewage sludge spreading, but now we're winning by other means.
It's crazy that it took so long, but shows that persistence pays. Please support FD if you can. Thanks.
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 22, 2025 at 9:51 AM
Great news. At
@fightingdirty.bsky.social we lost our court case on sewage sludge spreading, but now we're winning by other means.
It's crazy that it took so long, but shows that persistence pays. Please support FD if you can. Thanks.
fightingdirty.org/press-releas...
@fightingdirty.bsky.social we lost our court case on sewage sludge spreading, but now we're winning by other means.
It's crazy that it took so long, but shows that persistence pays. Please support FD if you can. Thanks.
fightingdirty.org/press-releas...
Delighted to have left X. In the words of a great philosopher, "ain't nobody got time for that".
Georgia Elliott-Smith (a prominent environmental justice campaigner, engineer, and the founder of Fighting Dirty, an organization dedicated to combating pollution in the UK) has left X (1.453 followers)
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September 23, 2025 at 8:08 AM
Delighted to have left X. In the words of a great philosopher, "ain't nobody got time for that".
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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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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...
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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!
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!
A recipe for DISASTER 🤢
Hugh uncovers a recipe for toxic sewage sludge, with lovely ingredients, including:
🦠 Pathogens
🥄 Microplastics
🏭 Industrial waste!
SIGN THE PETITION to make water companies clean up their own mess. 😤
👉 act.gp/4nHfsAc
Hugh uncovers a recipe for toxic sewage sludge, with lovely ingredients, including:
🦠 Pathogens
🥄 Microplastics
🏭 Industrial waste!
SIGN THE PETITION to make water companies clean up their own mess. 😤
👉 act.gp/4nHfsAc
July 10, 2025 at 12:54 PM
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!
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!
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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/...
“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/...
Toxic Pfas above proposed safety limits in almost all English waters tested
Exclusive: 110 of 117 bodies of water tested by Environment Agency would fail standards, with levels in fish 322 times the planned limit
www.theguardian.com
July 11, 2025 at 12:08 PM
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/...
“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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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.
Watch this space.
Major victory’ for campaigners as Environment Agency agrees to tackle UK tyre exports to India following threat of legal action | Fighting Dirty
The legal campaign group, Fighting Dirty, has secured a major victory after receiving a letter from the Environment Agency (EA) committing to undertake a review of its approach to waste tyre shipments...
fightingdirty.org
July 16, 2025 at 12:20 PM
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.
Watch this space.
We forced a govt investigation into illegal waste tyre export trade, and got ministers to finally pay attention to toxic sewage sludge entering our food. But we can't do this without YOU! Please share, subscribe, or buy us a virtual coffee so we can keep changing the law to make polluters pay! 🙏❤️🌏
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?
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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/
Donate | Fighting Dirty
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June 19, 2025 at 1:34 PM
We forced a govt investigation into illegal waste tyre export trade, and got ministers to finally pay attention to toxic sewage sludge entering our food. But we can't do this without YOU! Please share, subscribe, or buy us a virtual coffee so we can keep changing the law to make polluters pay! 🙏❤️🌏
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Our Founding Director @georgiaes.bsky.social was on BBC News earlier this morning, talking about the scandal of sewage sludge being spread onto our farmland despite the testing of this sludge not being updated since 1989.
Read more about our ask to government here bsky.app/profile/figh...
Read more about our ask to government here bsky.app/profile/figh...
June 10, 2025 at 10:03 AM
Our Founding Director @georgiaes.bsky.social was on BBC News earlier this morning, talking about the scandal of sewage sludge being spread onto our farmland despite the testing of this sludge not being updated since 1989.
Read more about our ask to government here bsky.app/profile/figh...
Read more about our ask to government here bsky.app/profile/figh...
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To recap: There are 10,000+ PFAS. Some are toxic. They're here forever. They pollute water, air, soils, animals and you. Some linked to diseases inc cancers. So when scientists warn against moves to redefine them, we'd better hope people are listening: www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Scientists warn against attempts to change definition of ‘forever chemicals’
Move to narrow classification of Pfas and weaken regulation is ‘politically and/or economically motivated’
www.theguardian.com
June 10, 2025 at 11:50 AM
To recap: There are 10,000+ PFAS. Some are toxic. They're here forever. They pollute water, air, soils, animals and you. Some linked to diseases inc cancers. So when scientists warn against moves to redefine them, we'd better hope people are listening: www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Some of you have very kindly voted for me here. If anyone else wants to do so, it's the last call - voting closes at midnight. Thank you! www.amnesty.org.uk/cast-your-vote
Cast Your Vote for the Amnesty UK People's Choice Award
Cast your vote in the first ever Amnesty UK People's Choice Awards. Which UK journalist do you think made the greatest impact in their tireless reporting on human rights?
www.amnesty.org.uk
May 21, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Some of you have very kindly voted for me here. If anyone else wants to do so, it's the last call - voting closes at midnight. Thank you! www.amnesty.org.uk/cast-your-vote
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£ for £ nothing else can compete, a unit of energy not used is always cheaper - than even a unit of green energy made. We should be scaling this up, not scaling it back. The treasury need to see that insulation is infrastructure, investment in the future. Warm Homes matter - and payback very quickly
May 21, 2025 at 4:07 PM
£ for £ nothing else can compete, a unit of energy not used is always cheaper - than even a unit of green energy made. We should be scaling this up, not scaling it back. The treasury need to see that insulation is infrastructure, investment in the future. Warm Homes matter - and payback very quickly
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I hope Labour are not quietly watering down the Warm Homes plan – 5 million homes are at risk. But insulation is one of the smartest investments we can make – it slashes bills, emissions, and energy waste - and improves lives.
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May 21, 2025 at 4:07 PM
I hope Labour are not quietly watering down the Warm Homes plan – 5 million homes are at risk. But insulation is one of the smartest investments we can make – it slashes bills, emissions, and energy waste - and improves lives.
buff.ly/X5QZlgC
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How lovely to be included in this list of wonderful campaigners! Thank you, @endsreport.com
📢 Mya-Rose Craig, founder and president of Black2Nature
📢 Gail Davies-Walsh, chief executive of @afonyddcymru.bsky.social
📢 @georgiaes.bsky.social , founder and director of @fightingdirty.bsky.social
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📢 Gail Davies-Walsh, chief executive of @afonyddcymru.bsky.social
📢 @georgiaes.bsky.social , founder and director of @fightingdirty.bsky.social
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Power List 2025: The UK’s 100 most impactful environmental professionals
www.endsreport.com
May 19, 2025 at 6:22 PM
How lovely to be included in this list of wonderful campaigners! Thank you, @endsreport.com
Unbiased judicial process is the backbone of democracy & the ultimate protection for human & environmental rights. Tyranny thrives when justice is denied - we must fight to defend fair trial or one day it'll be gone. @greenpeace.org @fightingdirty.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
I was an independent observer in the Greenpeace trial. What I saw was shocking | Steven Donziger
Greenpeace lost – not because it did something wrong but because it was denied a fair trial
www.theguardian.com
April 3, 2025 at 8:54 AM
Unbiased judicial process is the backbone of democracy & the ultimate protection for human & environmental rights. Tyranny thrives when justice is denied - we must fight to defend fair trial or one day it'll be gone. @greenpeace.org @fightingdirty.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Absolutely absurd
KKR is a private equity firm that inspired a book and film about corporate greed called Barbarians at the Gate
NO we don't want them running Thames Water
PUBLIC OWNERSHIP NOW
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
KKR is a private equity firm that inspired a book and film about corporate greed called Barbarians at the Gate
NO we don't want them running Thames Water
PUBLIC OWNERSHIP NOW
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Thames Water names US private equity group KKR as preferred bidder
KKR expected to acquire stake worth £4bn as UK’s biggest water supplier tries to stave off nationalisation
www.theguardian.com
March 31, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Absolutely absurd
KKR is a private equity firm that inspired a book and film about corporate greed called Barbarians at the Gate
NO we don't want them running Thames Water
PUBLIC OWNERSHIP NOW
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
KKR is a private equity firm that inspired a book and film about corporate greed called Barbarians at the Gate
NO we don't want them running Thames Water
PUBLIC OWNERSHIP NOW
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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Terrible news! Between 2021 & 2024 the ban on hunting turtle doves allowed the population to increase 25% - an astronomical speed of recovery. Before that numbers had been plummeting. Turtle dove population in the UK shrank by 98% between 1994 & 2021.
🚨 BREAKING: Turtle-dove hunting season reopens!
The EU Commission just gave the green light for EU countries to resume the hunt for European Turtle-doves, ending a 3-year pause.
This is reckless, short-sighted and will take this bird back to the brink.
More info: www.birdlife.org/news/2025/04...
The EU Commission just gave the green light for EU countries to resume the hunt for European Turtle-doves, ending a 3-year pause.
This is reckless, short-sighted and will take this bird back to the brink.
More info: www.birdlife.org/news/2025/04...
April 1, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Terrible news! Between 2021 & 2024 the ban on hunting turtle doves allowed the population to increase 25% - an astronomical speed of recovery. Before that numbers had been plummeting. Turtle dove population in the UK shrank by 98% between 1994 & 2021.
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Yesterday the UK's Clean Heat Market Mechanism launched.
The UK is the first country in the world setting clean heat standards for heating appliance manufacturers. It is a policy that if implemented well could be the key to scaling clean heating solutions.
www.installeronline.co.uk/green-energy...
The UK is the first country in the world setting clean heat standards for heating appliance manufacturers. It is a policy that if implemented well could be the key to scaling clean heating solutions.
www.installeronline.co.uk/green-energy...
Clean Heat Market Mechanism launched
The Clean Heat Market Mechanism (CHMM) has been introduced by the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero. Under the scheme, manufacturers that sell more
www.installeronline.co.uk
April 2, 2025 at 9:33 AM
Yesterday the UK's Clean Heat Market Mechanism launched.
The UK is the first country in the world setting clean heat standards for heating appliance manufacturers. It is a policy that if implemented well could be the key to scaling clean heating solutions.
www.installeronline.co.uk/green-energy...
The UK is the first country in the world setting clean heat standards for heating appliance manufacturers. It is a policy that if implemented well could be the key to scaling clean heating solutions.
www.installeronline.co.uk/green-energy...
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How did two short-eared owls end up getting shot on a grouse moor in the Yorkshire Dales ? Thanks to @rspbinvestigations.bsky.social quick thinking Investigation teams , we know . . .
April 2, 2025 at 9:50 AM
How did two short-eared owls end up getting shot on a grouse moor in the Yorkshire Dales ? Thanks to @rspbinvestigations.bsky.social quick thinking Investigation teams , we know . . .
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The Environment Agency will review its approach to waste tyre exports.
This comes after @fightingdirty.bsky.social initiated legal proceedings after an investigation found that millions of tyres being exported from the UK are being sent to furnaces in India
www.endsreport.com/article/1912...
This comes after @fightingdirty.bsky.social initiated legal proceedings after an investigation found that millions of tyres being exported from the UK are being sent to furnaces in India
www.endsreport.com/article/1912...
Environment Agency to review waste tyre shipments following legal threat
The Environment Agency (EA) will review its approach to waste tyre shipments after an investigation found that millions of UK tyres are being illegally sent to pyrolysis plants in India.
www.endsreport.com
March 28, 2025 at 12:48 PM
The Environment Agency will review its approach to waste tyre exports.
This comes after @fightingdirty.bsky.social initiated legal proceedings after an investigation found that millions of tyres being exported from the UK are being sent to furnaces in India
www.endsreport.com/article/1912...
This comes after @fightingdirty.bsky.social initiated legal proceedings after an investigation found that millions of tyres being exported from the UK are being sent to furnaces in India
www.endsreport.com/article/1912...
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At a time when the government is "cutting red tape", telling regulators they need to "do more with less", sometimes it's revealing to look at what happens when the same firms that operate in this country are freed from restrictions.
Veolia deliberately pumping hazardous landfill waste into protected wetlands. The same #Veolia that manages UK landfills & incinerators @veoliauk.bsky.social
- the landfill receives waste from the region's oil refineries
- water leaching from it into wetlands found to contain 25x "safe" levels of mercury
- people living nearby report health conditions including children "born without parts of the brain and skull"
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
- water leaching from it into wetlands found to contain 25x "safe" levels of mercury
- people living nearby report health conditions including children "born without parts of the brain and skull"
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
March 29, 2025 at 11:24 AM
At a time when the government is "cutting red tape", telling regulators they need to "do more with less", sometimes it's revealing to look at what happens when the same firms that operate in this country are freed from restrictions.
Veolia deliberately pumping hazardous landfill waste into protected wetlands. The same #Veolia that manages UK landfills & incinerators @veoliauk.bsky.social
- the landfill receives waste from the region's oil refineries
- water leaching from it into wetlands found to contain 25x "safe" levels of mercury
- people living nearby report health conditions including children "born without parts of the brain and skull"
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
- water leaching from it into wetlands found to contain 25x "safe" levels of mercury
- people living nearby report health conditions including children "born without parts of the brain and skull"
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
Dying fish, polluted water and a terrible stench: the French firm accused of dumping toxic waste in Colombia’s wetlands
A controversial landfill near Barrancabermeja has polluted protected wetlands, causing harm to people and the environment, claim local campaigners
www.theguardian.com
March 29, 2025 at 8:37 AM
Veolia deliberately pumping hazardous landfill waste into protected wetlands. The same #Veolia that manages UK landfills & incinerators @veoliauk.bsky.social
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"we wait with cautious optimism to find out more about the scope of their review. The government must stop turning a blind eye to the illegal and immoral activity of UK waste exporters." Our Director @georgiaes.bsky.social as reported by @pippaneill.bsky.social for @endsreport.com 👇
The Environment Agency will review its approach to waste tyre exports.
This comes after @fightingdirty.bsky.social initiated legal proceedings after an investigation found that millions of tyres being exported from the UK are being sent to furnaces in India
www.endsreport.com/article/1912...
This comes after @fightingdirty.bsky.social initiated legal proceedings after an investigation found that millions of tyres being exported from the UK are being sent to furnaces in India
www.endsreport.com/article/1912...
Environment Agency to review waste tyre shipments following legal threat
The Environment Agency (EA) will review its approach to waste tyre shipments after an investigation found that millions of UK tyres are being illegally sent to pyrolysis plants in India.
www.endsreport.com
March 28, 2025 at 12:58 PM
"we wait with cautious optimism to find out more about the scope of their review. The government must stop turning a blind eye to the illegal and immoral activity of UK waste exporters." Our Director @georgiaes.bsky.social as reported by @pippaneill.bsky.social for @endsreport.com 👇