Find our Boy Wasted series on @endsreport.com's Eco Chamber feed, wherever you get your podcasts.

With incredible reporting from Adnan Khan, hosted by
@danielashby.bsky.social, @lucytaylorpro.bsky.social & UK probing by me & @pippaneill.bsky.social. With support from @journalismfund.bsky.social.

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

The panel at 2pm on 28 Sept at the Staybridge Suites features:

Chair: @barrygardiner.bsky.social MP
@lucytaylorpro.bsky.social - Producer @Smoketrail
@willmccallum.bsky.social - Greenpeace UK
Dan Cooke - Chartered Institute of Waste Mangmnt
And me - @endsreport.com dep. editor

Boy Wasted - out now

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 ❗

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

Produced by the award-winning team behind the BBC's 'Buried' series and published by @endsreport.com & @groene.nl

With incredible reporting from Adnan Khan, hosted by
@danielashby.bsky.social & @lucytaylorpro.bsky.social, & UK probing by me & @pippaneill.bsky.social.

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.

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

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!

💫 Delighted to be shortlisted for the British Society of Magazine Editors Awards @thebsme.bsky.social for work leading @endsreport.com's features & investigations section!

The last year has been mental, so I look forward to celebrating with fellow nominees and colleagues also shortlisted, such as..

On 27 March I'll be presenting an ENDS TV panel discussion (live 👀) about the chemical contamination of England's rivers 🐟 🧪, emerging threats to be aware of ❌ - and what can be done about them...

Ft. exclusive footage & an informed panel - register now ➡️ ends-report.wavecast.io/dead-in-the-...

And ENDS subscribers can read the full in-depth Poisoned Pastures investigation, here 👇
www.endsreport.com/article/1889...

This is all happening in the context of the USA, where high levels of PFAS have been found in water, crops, cattle and soil on farms where sludge had been spread - it's seen some farmers put out of business.

Full investigation 👉 www.endsreport.com/article/1889396/

The piece revealed how the ‘highest concentration of total PFAS’ in the whole country has been found in Bentham, a small Yorkshire market town that is home to firefighting foam manufacturer Angus Fire 🧵
See here 👉 www.endsreport.com/1873849

The piece revealed how the ‘highest concentration of total PFAS’ in the whole country has been found in Bentham, a small Yorkshire market town that is home to firefighting foam manufacturer Angus Fire 🧵
See here 👉 www.endsreport.com/1873849

But we're not done - last week ENDS published a piece by @shoshaadie.bsky.social revealing that a toxic chemical has been identified in a Cotswolds stream at levels 2,000 times higher than env. standards, near where a primary school has been mooted for development

👉 www.endsreport.com/1896059

Next up, God's Own Dark Waters. We published a cracking piece by @pippaneill.bsky.social in May which revealed how staggering levels of PFAS have been recorded in the small Yorkshire market town of Bentham - and how the Environment Agency let it happen.

Read it here ➡️ www.endsreport.com/1873849/

First up - my investigation into how sewage sludge fertiliser sold to farmers by water companies contains a banned ‘forever chemical’ at levels in excess of those considered safe in emerging science.




Free quick read version here ft @georgemonbiot.bsky.social comment

👉 www.endsreport.com/1889418