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I’m back from Labour conference with a new understanding of its approach on nature and building – you may not like it

Tess Colley @tesscolley.bsky.social · 7d

Read my comment piece on what I saw at this year's Liverpudlian jambouree, and what it has to say about Labour's thinking on 'nature v housing'..

@endsreport.com

www.endsreport.com/article/1934...

An ex-No.10 advisor told me Labour’s anti-nature talk was just ‘grit in the oyster’ – could a ‘Nature Bill’ be Starmer’s pearl?

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

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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

www.endsreport.com/article/1933...

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...

A new planning bill would likely be a ‘Nature Bill’, says former No.10 advisor

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Tess Colley @tesscolley.bsky.social · 9d

If govt brings forward a new planning bill it will most likely be a 'Nature Bill' to replace EU-derived nature protections, a former No.10 advisor on housing told me at Lab Party Conference 👇

Gov says 'just speculation', but that's not the feeling on the ground..
www.endsreport.com/article/1934...

Labour Party Conference: If the government brings forward a new planning bill it will most likely be a “Nature Bill” to replace the Habitats Regulations and EU-derived nature protecti...

Tess Colley @tesscolley.bsky.social · 10d

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

Tess Colley @tesscolley.bsky.social · 11d

This is today!

If you’re at Labour Conference come and join us at 2pm 👇

Tess Colley @tesscolley.bsky.social · 13d

At the Labour Party Conference @barrygardiner.bsky.social MP is convening a panel I'll be speaking on to discuss the findings of Boy Wasted, and the tonnes of plastic we in the UK export abroad.

2pm at Solidarity Cafe in the Staybridge Suites on 28th Sept

Come join!
www.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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Tess Colley @tesscolley.bsky.social · 13d

At the Labour Party Conference @barrygardiner.bsky.social MP is convening a panel I'll be speaking on to discuss the findings of Boy Wasted, and the tonnes of plastic we in the UK export abroad.

2pm at Solidarity Cafe in the Staybridge Suites on 28th Sept

Come join!
www.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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Tess Colley @tesscolley.bsky.social · 13d

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

Tess Colley @tesscolley.bsky.social · 13d

At the Labour Party Conference @barrygardiner.bsky.social MP is convening a panel I'll be speaking on to discuss the findings of Boy Wasted, and the tonnes of plastic we in the UK export abroad.

2pm at Solidarity Cafe in the Staybridge Suites on 28th Sept

Come join!
www.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.

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

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Tess Colley @tesscolley.bsky.social · 13d

An MP is starting a campaign 'for real change' following a joint ENDS investigation revealing that 🚨 hundreds of boys & men have died 🚨 in recycling plants in Turkey – a top UK plastic export destination.

He'll launch it at Labour Party conference with a panel...

www.endsreport.com/article/1933...

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...

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

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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 ⬇️

solidaritycafe.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!)

www.endsreport.com/article/1933...

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...

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

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Tess Colley @tesscolley.bsky.social · 15d

'We thought we were looking into one mysterious body..but what emerged was a whole broken system full of criminality & death'

Our Boy Wasted investigation reveals a bloody underworld at the bottom of your recycling bin.

Listen wherever you get your podcasts.
www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

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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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

www.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.

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

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Tess Colley @tesscolley.bsky.social · 20d

The UK's biggest export is waste..

..but the Environment Agency only has five full time port officers across all of England.

This and more in our new true crime podcast - Boy Wasted.

Listen to the series on @endsreport.com's Eco Chamber podcast feed now 👇
www.endsreport.com/article/1932...

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...

Call for ban on UK plastic waste abroad following true crime investigation

Tess Colley @tesscolley.bsky.social · 22d

🚨🚨Campaigners have called on the government to ban all plastic waste exports following a joint ENDS investigation out yesterday.

It revealed hundreds of boys and men have been killed in recycling factories in Turkey - a top destination for UK waste exports👇
www.endsreport.com/article/1932...

Campaigners have called for the government to ban all plastic waste exports following a joint ENDS investigation that revealed hundreds of boys and men have been killed in recycling factories in Turke...

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Tess Colley @tesscolley.bsky.social · 23d

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.

Please listen, and share!

Tess Colley @tesscolley.bsky.social · 23d

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 ❗

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Dan Ashby @danielashby.bsky.social · 23d

NEW: Calls for plastic exports ban as investigation reveals hundreds of boys and men killed in recycling factories in Turkey.

Boy Wasted, our three-part podcast exposes hundreds of deaths in recycling facilities. Search for it now wherever you get your podcasts.