Sewage is poisoning our green and pleasant land

[milkloss]

There, I said it.

 

[wanton dwarf]

Given most of it goes into the sea .. How ?

 

[chipchap]

https://www.facebook.com/100004447923102/posts/1909682579189988

 

[deleted user 837354]

https://www.facebook.com/100004447923102/posts/1909682579189988

Looks like a load of sh1t!

 

[bigw]

Given most of it goes into the sea .. How ?

3.6m tons according to our good friends at the BBC

Rules around human waste in farming are 'out of date' - BBC News

 

[deleted user 837354]

What on Earth does the BBC, in it's eternal wisdom, suggest is done with the stuff then?

 

[Cowabunga]

What on Earth does the BB, in it's eternal wisdom, suggest is done with the stuff then?

That's not their problem any more than our cow and pig slurry is anyone's problem but ours. Since we farmers are very much held to account for any pollutant, the water and sewerage companies should be held to at least the same account. Indeed being that is their main business rather than a consequence of their main business, perhaps they should be held to a far higher standard than individual micro-businesses that are farmers.

Yet they get away with blatant and gross discharges of toxic waste on a very regular basis at multiple sites.

 

[David.]

You need to be owned by offshore companies with friends in high places..

 

[OGB]

 

[Goweresque]

That's not their problem any more than our cow and pig slurry is anyone's problem but ours. Since we farmers are very much held to account for any pollutant, the water and sewerage companies should be held to at least the same account. Indeed being that is their main business rather than a consequence of their main business, perhaps they should be held to a far higher standard than individual micro-businesses that are farmers.

Yet they get away with blatant and gross discharges of toxic waste on a very regular basis at multiple sites.

Its not the water/sewerage companies that need to be held to account, its the producer of the sewage, ie the public. The polluter pays is the principle, or so we are told when farmers are in the firing line, so make it apply to everyone. Yes, the water companies are getting away with discharging effluent into the sea etc, if they couldn't the public would have to pay far more to dispose of it. If it costs billions to dispose of the public's effluent properly then they are the ones who should have to pay for it.

 

[deleted user 837354]

Its not the water/sewerage companies that need to be held to account, its the producer of the sewage, ie the public. The polluter pays is the principle, or so we are told when farmers are in the firing line, so make it apply to everyone. Yes, the water companies are getting away with discharging effluent into the sea etc, if they couldn't the public would have to pay far more to dispose of it. If it costs billions to dispose of the public's effluent properly then they are the ones who should have to pay for it.

With respect, I pay my bills to the water company. They are taking payment for taking the sewage, therefore my concern, interest or liability for it ends the second it goes down the drain.

 

[Courier]

The 3,600,000 tonnes into the sea will be relatively dilute whereas the 53,000,000 of sludge spread on UK farmland has been de-watered and represents 100’s of times more waste disposal.

 

[delilah]

Not ours it isn't. .

 

[Cowmansam]

Bugger that

 

[primmiemoo]

Bugger that

Why?
Bet it's correctly foong shweighd and everything.

 

[snarling bee]

I hope you're doing a mass balance calculation with that privvy.

 

[Cowmansam]

Why?
Bet it's correctly foong shweighd and everything.

I’d rather squat up a hedgerow than sh!t in a shed

 

[wanton dwarf]

3.6m tons according to our good friends at the BBC

Rules around human waste in farming are 'out of date' - BBC News

"It also found evidence microplastics were present in the fertiliser and raised concern that repeated applications over many years could pollute the land and render it unsuitable for agriculture."


What a load of utter cretinous stupid journalism.

There's tonnes of plastic, metal, rubber, batteries, clothes, toys etc in recycled compost.

The common factor in all of these "Recycled" materials is the fact those doing the recycling are no good at doing it. The EA should have been on top of this 10s of years ago.

Still, they'll always blame someone else.

Regardless, most of it gets dumped in the sea.

 

[primmiemoo]

I’d rather squat up a hedgerow than sh!t in a shed

But with a privy, you don't have to bring your trowel and poo bag...

 

[bobk]

Hazardous waste , pur and simple