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pippaneill.bsky.social @pippaneill.bsky.social · 6d

Listen to the full podcast here ⬇️⬇️⬇️

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LISTEN NOW > BOY WASTED: A bale of plastic. A mystery body. A global investigation

There’s a concrete yard with piles of plastic, and lying on the ground is the body of a boy – grotesquely ripped apart. Who was he? And what really happened to him? A team of award-winning investigati...

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pippaneill.bsky.social @pippaneill.bsky.social · 6d

Great to hear @tesscolley.bsky.social and Adnan Khan discuss the findings of our podcast Boy Wasted on Inside Europe (31 mins in!)

"9 million containers pass through British ports every year and there are five Environment Agency officers in England checking them"

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Inside Europe – DW

A weekly deep dive into the twists and turns of European current affairs, politics and culture, brought to you by Germany’s international broadcaster.

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pippaneill.bsky.social @pippaneill.bsky.social · 9d

NEW: A legal challenge brought on behalf of a household in the UK’s ‘most PFAS polluted town’, whose property ‘may have been impacted by PFAS present on the Angus Fire site’, has been settled out of court with ‘no admission of liability’ by Angus Fire

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Legal challenge in ‘UK’s most PFAS polluted town’ settled out of court

A legal challenge brought on behalf of a household in the UK’s ‘most PFAS polluted town’, whose property ‘may have been impacted by PFAS present on the Angus Fire site’, has been settled out of court ...

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pippaneill.bsky.social @pippaneill.bsky.social · 9d

Campaigner Dr Mick Salt said:
"I find it reprehensible that in times of challenging public finances, HMRC have allowed an accumulation of over £80m of risk against a company with such a chequered history."

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Walleys Quarry operator entered liquidation with possible £80m unpaid tax bill

EXCLUSIVE: The operator of the notorious Walleys Quarry landfill in Staffordshire entered liquidation with a potential £80.8 million unpaid tax bill, court documents have revealed.

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pippaneill.bsky.social @pippaneill.bsky.social · 9d

🚨EXCLUSIVE 🚨 The operator of the notorious Walleys Quarry landfill in Staffordshire entered liquidation with a potential £80.8 million unpaid tax bill, court documents have revealed!

This is on top of the £600,000 it owed to the Environment Agency.

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Walleys Quarry operator entered liquidation with possible £80m unpaid tax bill

EXCLUSIVE: The operator of the notorious Walleys Quarry landfill in Staffordshire entered liquidation with a potential £80.8 million unpaid tax bill, court documents have revealed.

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pippaneill.bsky.social @pippaneill.bsky.social · 9d

Houses should never have been built’ near a PFAS factory in Blackpool that is currently at the centre of a contaminated land investigation, the constituency MP told delegates at @chemtrust.bsky.social fringe event at the Labour Party Conference.

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‘Houses should never have been built’ near Blackpool PFAS factory, MP says

Labour Party Conference: ‘Houses should never have been built’ near a chemicals factory in Blackpool that is currently at the centre of a contaminated land investigation, the constitu...

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pippaneill.bsky.social @pippaneill.bsky.social · 10d

My recent investigation exposed that AGC Chemicals is still producing products containing PFOA and is emitting this chemical to the air.

PFOA is a globally banned and carcinogenic forever chemical.

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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?

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pippaneill.bsky.social @pippaneill.bsky.social · 10d

Labour Conference: ‘Houses should never have been built’ near the AGC chemicals factory in Blackpool the constituency MP told delegates

The factory is currently at the centre of a contaminated land investigation in relation to PFAS pollution

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‘Houses should never have been built’ near Blackpool PFAS factory, MP says

Labour Party Conference: ‘Houses should never have been built’ near a chemicals factory in Blackpool that is currently at the centre of a contaminated land investigation, the constitu...

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pippaneill.bsky.social @pippaneill.bsky.social · 10d

My recent investigation exposed that AGC Chemicals Europe is still producing products containing PFOA and is emitting this chemical to the air. PFOA is a globally banned and carcinogenic forever chemical.

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

pippaneill.bsky.social @pippaneill.bsky.social · 10d

Labour Conference: ‘Houses should never have been built’ near a chemicals factory in Blackpool that is currently at the centre of a contaminated land investigation, the constituency MP told delegates.

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https://www.endsreport.com/article/1933963/houses-built-near-blackpool-pfas-factory-mp-saysConference

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pippaneill.bsky.social @pippaneill.bsky.social · 10d

Listen to the Boy Wasted investigation in full here

www.endsreport.com/article/1932...

LISTEN NOW > BOY WASTED: A bale of plastic. A mystery body. A global investigation

There’s a concrete yard with piles of plastic, and lying on the ground is the body of a boy – grotesquely ripped apart. Who was he? And what really happened to him? A team of award-winning investigati...

www.endsreport.com

pippaneill.bsky.social @pippaneill.bsky.social · 10d

Labour Conference: The government must reframe the problem of plastic waste as a public health emergency rather than just an environmental one, the co-executive director of Greenpeace has said, describing Boy Wasted podcast as a “prime example of this”.

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ENDS investigation shows plastic waste is a ‘public health emergency’, Labour conference hears

Labour Party Conference: The government must reframe the problem of plastic waste as a public health emergency rather than just an environmental one, the co-executive director of Gree...

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pippaneill.bsky.social @pippaneill.bsky.social · 13d

🔥♻️ Search for the EcoChamber on your podcast feed to listen to thee-party Boy Wasted investigation.

Or click the link below

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www.endsreport.com/article/1932...

LISTEN NOW > BOY WASTED: A bale of plastic. A mystery body. A global investigation

There’s a concrete yard with piles of plastic, and lying on the ground is the body of a boy – grotesquely ripped apart. Who was he? And what really happened to him? A team of award-winning investigati...

www.endsreport.com

pippaneill.bsky.social @pippaneill.bsky.social · 13d

Barry will be hosting a panel at the Labour Conference at 2pm on Sunday, where @tesscolley.bsky.social
will be talking more about our investigation

Also on the panel:
- Lucy Taylor, Smoke Trail Productions
- Will McCallum, Greenpeace UK
- Dan Cooke, CIWM

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pippaneill.bsky.social @pippaneill.bsky.social · 13d

- Labour MP Barry Gardiner said: “The horrors exposed by the brilliant Boy Wasted team must not be ignored... I hope to start a campaign for real change: change that means an end to both the exportation of our waste, and the exploitation of those disposing of it.”

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pippaneill.bsky.social @pippaneill.bsky.social · 13d

An MP who sits on the Environmental Audit Committee is seeking to start a campaign “for real change” after our Boy Wasted Podcast revealed that hundreds of boys and men have died in recycling facilities in Turkey – a top UK plastic export destination.

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MP to start campaign ‘for real change’ at Labour Party conference in wake of ENDS waste investigation

An MP who sits on the Environmental Audit Committee is seeking to start a campaign “for real change” in the wake of a joint ENDS investigation which revealed that hundreds of boys and men have died in...

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ENDS Report @endsreport.com · 13d

The panel, at 2pm on 28 September at the Staybridge Suites in Liverpool, features:

Chair - Barry Gardiner, MP

Tess Colley - ENDS deputy editor
Lucy Taylor - producer at Smoke Trail
Will McCallum - Greenpeace UK
Dan Cooke - Chartered Institute of Waste Management

Join us!

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ENDS Report @endsreport.com · 13d

🚨Are you going to Labour Party Conference?

On Sunday, ENDS' @tesscolley.bsky.social,
will be speaking on a panel at 2pm to discuss our new true crime podcast, Boy Wasted, and the issue of plastic exports, crime, and recycling.

Join her at Solidarity Cafe ⬇️

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pippaneill.bsky.social @pippaneill.bsky.social · 14d

Or you can read the full investigation 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

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pippaneill.bsky.social @pippaneill.bsky.social · 14d

🚨🎧📣🎙️Listen to the EcoChamber podcast to hear @tesscolley.bsky.social and I discuss my investigation into a chemical company near Blackpool, which is producing products containing a carcinogenic & banned chemical and emitting it to air

(It's free to listen!)

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Reap what you sow: Lancashire's toxic town - exposed

An ENDS exclusive reveals a chemical giant in the UK is still producing the banned and carcinogenic forever chemical PFOA. The company says that production of the substance is inadvertent and within r...

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pippaneill.bsky.social @pippaneill.bsky.social · 16d

I'm looking forward to attending this event at the Labour Party Conference next week, where Lucy Taylor and @tesscolley.bsky.social
will discuss our Boy Wasted podcast.

The event will be hosted by Labour MP and Environmental Audit Committee member Barry Gardiner

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solidaritycafe.com

Solidarity Café is run by Barry Gardiner MP, as a pop-up Labour Party Conference FRINGE event on Saturday 27 and Sunday 28 September 2025 between 12noon and 4pm each day.

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pippaneill.bsky.social @pippaneill.bsky.social · 16d

Boy Wasted is an “arresting and horrific insight into the link between consumption, waste and the loss of human life” - writes Daniel Dylan Wray in The Guardian.

Listen to the full series via The ENDS Report Eco Chamber podcast feed.

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‘A broken system full of criminality and death’: the podcast lifting the lid on what happens to the UK’s rubbish

Turkey’s recycling centres treat vast amounts of the UK’s waste – and rely on refugees who work in conditions so unsafe that hundreds have died. A new podcast uncovers the sinister side of what happen...

www.theguardian.com

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ENDS Report @endsreport.com · 17d

Can an embattled government meet the great green tests of our time?

For our new special report, we’ve asked top experts to predict what Labour’s environmental wins – and defeats – will be by the time of the next general election

This is their verdict ⬇️

YEARBOOK 2025: The great green battles Labour will win – and those that will best it

Can an embattled government meet the environmental tests of its time? For part three of our new special report, top experts predict what the green policy victories – and failures – will be by the time...

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pippaneill.bsky.social @pippaneill.bsky.social · 17d

We’re living in a sacrifice zone. Anglo American has polluted the water and the air we breathe” says Luis Acevedo, the president of the El Melón farmers’ association.

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Illness, animal deaths and water shortages: life inside Chile’s polluted ‘sacrifice zones’

Allegations of environmental breaches dog Anglo American’s mining operations. Now the company has been given the go-ahead for plans that communities say risk disaster

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pippaneill.bsky.social @pippaneill.bsky.social · 17d

AGC Chemicals is currently at the centre of an investigation seeking to establish weather historic contamination poses a risk to health.

My recent investigation reveals it appears to have known about the health risks to its workers almost 2 decades ago!!

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

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