Environmentalist reducing pollution and working to a circular economy & net zero. All views my own 🚶♂️🧍♀️👩🦽🐟🐙🦋🐝🌳🐢
Joined February 2020
- Tweets252
- Following404
- Followers158
- Likes163
Great meeting for launch of @ClimateEmergUK successes report. Councils have crucial role in achieving #NetZero and the report gives some great case studies.
Transition #NetZero has many challenges ahead but knowledge exchange is vital.
🚨 Report now available!
📔'Scorecards Successes: What factors enable local climate action?'
Our research partner @anthesis_group looked into the trends in the #CouncilClimateScorecards results and identified characteristics impacting council scores. 🔎buff.ly/3TLyKaN
This is why it's so important to stop at source👇
Whether it's ensuring there are Deposit Return Schemes, capturing microfibres from washing machines or reducing microplastics lost from tyres to the environment.
Our scientists have explored the potential for mechanical devices to clear the ocean of litter and found that while they did trap fragments of plastic and other fibres, seaweed made up the majority of the items captured
🔗 plymouth.ac.uk/news/scientis…
Laura Foster retweeted
Budds Farm sewage treatment plant has been discharging the sewage waste of 400,000+ people for 160 hours continuous (~7 days & counting) into Langstone Harbour: a Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI), Special Area of Conservation (SAC) & Internat. RAMSAR site for rare birds
Laura Foster retweeted
The #CouncilClimateScorecards results are IN! 📊
Find out how well your own council is doing at: 👇
buff.ly/32Hw8D4
Laura Foster retweeted
Victorian sewers not to blame for England’s pollution
tinyurl.com/32vww5rs
@gillplimmer1 @FT
@WindrushWasp @watervole3
@Feargal_Sharkey @sandralaville @rhysblakely @emmagatten @CapurrodDaniel @Jamie_Woodward_ @OxonAndrew @DrAlexFord
WASP report tinyurl.com/3tunj4jf
Laura Foster retweeted
This photo of me with @bbcsoutheast gives you an idea of size of the Budds Farm No.2 storm water overflow (2x2m) which has discharged massive quantities of sewage and chemicals into protected marine habitats #EndSewagePollution photos @pearsallphoto & @CleanHarbours
Spent 37 working days awaiting response to my FOI to EA on Emergency overflows (EO)- legal max is 20
EA insanely overworked & under resourced. How can EA fully investigate with such capacity?
1 in 3 EO England released raw 💩💩 62% of these repeatedly
standard.co.uk/news/environm…
53
Laura Foster retweeted
🌊 We will be pushing ahead with our legal challenge to tackle the sewage crisis, despite the promises we have been hearing from water companies.
Here's why ⬇️
glplive.org/CleanWaters_TW_2…
Ever done a beach clean and found hundreds of this little plastic pre- production pellets? These are shipped around the world & lost overboard
Sign this petition to stop this plastic pollution #nurdles and get them classified as Marine Pollutant by @IMOHQ
It’s time to stop plastic pellets polluting our ocean.
Today, we launch our campaign that calls on @IMOHQ to make regulatory changes to protect our ocean from nurdles. Sign our petition and help end this catastrophe.
#NurdleAction
Laura Foster retweeted
Today @ScotGovFM announced another delay to Scotland's deposit return scheme to March 2024.
Our @mcsuk vols found drinks related litter on 95% of beaches surveyed last year.
Scotland's beaches continue to pay the price.
We need everyone to come together to make this work.
ALT littered plastic bottles and drinks cans on a sandy beach with the forth bridges in the background
Laura Foster retweeted
‘Forever chemicals’ linked to infertility in women, study shows theguardian.com/environment/…
Laura Foster retweeted
🇬🇧 The UK’s plans for tackling PFAS pollution – are they good enough?
👉my latest blog for @CHEMTrust
chemtrust.org/uk-pfas-rmoa/
#BanPFAS
ALT Drawing of a tap with the word PFAS multiple times in red and the text: PFAS are STILL contaminating our drinking water sources
Storm overflow data for England & Wales released today
EA Director said: "The decrease in spills in 2022 is largely down to dry weather, not water company action"
Over 300,000 spills in England in 2022
We want to #wildSwimming #surf & enjoy our #coast
gov.uk/government/news/envir…
Laura Foster retweeted
European environmental NGOs cheered in 2017 when @nicolasturgeon announced deposit return for Scotland. We were in the meetings, and we saw how inspirational that decision was. Today some of them wrote to @lornaslater to support her work to deliver it.
thenational.scot/news/234134…
Laura Foster retweeted
Time to get a grip on chemicals in our drinking water! US plans limits of PFAS forever chemicals of 4ng/l whereas in the UK it’s 100ng/l. 🤢 Story by me, @leanahosea @WATERSHED_i
theguardian.com/environment/…
Laura Foster retweeted
🚨BREAKING NEWS! 🚨
River Action has issued a legal claim in the High Court against the @EnvAgency for failing to apply the Farming Rules for Water on the #RiverWye 👉 bit.ly/3TcTiXw 🧵
Laura Foster retweeted
Loved watching @BBC #WildIsles last night. But did you know that the Northern Gannets from Bass rock shown in the episode are impacted by #PFAS?
This study shows the presence of these forever chemicals in northern gannet eggs: sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
Laura Foster retweeted
There is more and more strong empirical evidence emerging concerning the coastal impact of sea spray aerosol transport of #PFAS. Data have been generated in Denmark, the Netherlands and Belgium. Check out this presentation by Danish scientists from NIRAS. naturvardsverket.se/4adb09/c…
We need to move #reuse to reduce our environmental impacts.
The lack of transparency in @McDonalds calculations means that we cant provide any analyses.
New McDonald's study attempts to water down EU ambition on reuse | Break Free From Plastic breakfreefromplastic.org/202…
44
Laura Foster retweeted
Littered vapes - what to do about it?
We @mcsuk with @ASHScotland @EnviroElliott @KSBScotland & @LessWasteLaura have created briefing:
media.mcsuk.org/documents/Jo…
Please share & send to your MSP to join the call to #BanDisposableVapes & improve recycling for all other vapes.
ALT Screenshot of the top half of the first page of the Parliamentary briefing entitles Tackling the environment and health impacts of e-cigarettes with a close up of multiple vapes in different colours above with the ASH Scotland, Keep Scotland Beautiful and Marine Conservation Society logos