Contaminated sewage used as fertiliser on English farms - secret report

When Penny Napierski suspected something wasn't right with the foul-smelling fertiliser spread on the field near her home last year, she reported it to the Environment Agency. Now we've found an unpublished report from 2017 which shows the EA knew that sewage sludge spread on farms in England contained a long list of contaminants that could be harmful to human health or the environment - from salmonella to microplastics.
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[@MindovermatterQED]

There is a point where ignorance and incompetence veer on the criminal negligence. This point has been passed a while ago ... and sadly this is not specific to the UK. Most "developped countries" do the same.

[@jzj3207]

UK is far from a developed country. its a mess big time

[@KevinInScotland]

Firstly, all the people involved in this investigation and the making of this video have done a great service to us here. What was found in that sludge is hardly surprisingly. I have thought time and time again for years that all those toilet cleaners, harpic, Duck and all the others, including modified bleach cannot surely be removed from our water system.... in this case sludge. They just can't do it. I personally believe Mr Muscle and all the other stuff should be banned...... replaced by something more friendly.

[@beewisebeestronger6224]

Just don't put sludge on farm land , burn it for fuel or use it for some other fuel purpose

[@5crassrocker]

this must be how Hepatitis A outbreak can happen on strawberries. disgusting this should be outlawed

[@nicotina4082]

Depopulation has begun 🐜🕷️🤑

[@leedza]

Actually not a bad idea, however you need to pre treat it first i.e. with compost worms or a biogester. Just dumping raw sewage slug is a bad idea.

[@Valkyriepedersen]

I am going through this hell now. I live next to several hundred acres of corn field. They have trucked in so much shit its GOD Awful. I cant go outside, I live at ground zero right next door. We all have well water here so I expect it will reach the water table and get into our water. So angry and sad about it. I live in Middle Tennessee and there are no oder laws in our state. The EPA told me "Thats what you get for living in the country!" also "Its completely legal"

[@teddyruxspin8480]

Same thing here in Canada , they are piling the dry stuff right now down the road and it combusts and just smoulders for days ....you can smell it for miles

[@andrewholland7589]

They are required to disc it in within hours of applying per epa part 503. This is dramatized heavily.

[@madiedee3537]

How far is it REALLY going. I’m so scared for the future of my children. We have seen all this very close up and without any investigations, just pure OBSERVATION we know there is a humongous problem. Too much plastic that won’t go away. Too much lies. And all of this continues. We fight the inflow of new single use plastics for our children.

[@ProgressiveTeen]

Everything that goes down house drains and factory drains are still in that sludge

[@danielallen2117]

What about trace pharmaceuticals?

[@tedthesailor172]

I don't think that point received sufficient emphasis. There's already evidence that the widespread use of pharmaceutical contraceptives alone are altering the sexuality of aquatic organisms. When you consider the almost wholesale use now of diabetes, depression & hypertension related drugs (just about everybody over 50 in the west in taking some sort of statin) there's a truly exotic cocktail finding unity down the pan. Flies and other insects are going to be ingesting all this crap, then birds eat the insects, and so on.

[@KevinInScotland]

Like I said, toilet cleaners.

[@Purplepinkmom]

​@tedthesailor172 I wonder of this is where scarcoids come from.

[@mickdunne4306]

What happens to Penny's waiste has to go somewhere

[@vINF3RNOx]

Bio solids is heavily regulated when spread on farm land, where do you suggest the waste goes instead? This fertiliser creates a full circle for food production.

[@5crassrocker]

burned as fuel for energy production.

[@TheMercifulKnight]

Many things are heavily regulated, In fact some of the most corrupt countries like India and the UK heavily regulate markets but it does nothing to stop large scale abuse. Plastic pollutants cause abnormalities in both Men and Women cause disruption in bodily systems . Dr Shanna Swan who studied are Berkley did a video recently discussing the physical abnormalities these class of chemicals cause. The British was is to make light of a serious matter and shrug your shoulders and laugh about it on TV.

[@steveo782812]

Yeah they want you to burn it and then complain about green house gasses. They’re never happy.

[@gpo746]

In Hull we could smell that , we KNEW it wasn't horse, pig or cow dung. We Knew it was human waste . They are right , its a certain smell and its alot worse than the normal country smell. Its disgusting dumping that next to someones home . I hope she gets change

[@kathb1683]

Wonder if using worm farms would kill the worms!

[@izzzzzz6]

The UK need to start using bio-digesters. The process should really involve the separation of fluids and the addition of a carbon based solid such as straw or similar. People are just too lazy and in too much of a hurry or trying to save money. The LA sewage treatment plant does a much better job and you can see that the system they use is far more complex. The pesticides are either showing up as having passed through your body anyway or the test was contaminated. It's normal to find bacteria in compost, thats how it's made. Just that the UK process is not the best one.

[@treefrog123a]

Thete is n9 reason elon cant bore a mile down hole to dump this sludge in, in certain spots amd let nature recycle it away from water tables

[@davidshechtman4746]

Giving a whole new meaning to the "fecal-oral route".

[@ifeelbetterabouthis.louis3]

Awesome

[@kierankinder9944]

Nothing wrong with biosolids when they are used safely with the relevant tests . The rules for using then are very tight and should all comply with the biosolids assurance scheme

[@GOFFY2771]

It's very good for land 100% crops grow lovely and green and with very good price after harvest

[@beewisebeestronger6224]

We can't remove most pharma chemicals or other things, seven trent openly admit it , the plants absorb it and it amplifies in the food chain , another thing that probably promotes cancer or some other disease

[@yanlopez674]

POV: you see an ignorant motherfckr

[@treefrog123a]

And covid

[@user-mi5nj8gj5p]

This click bait if human sewage properly treated to extract biogas and left for 60 days of digestion then the fertilizer is odourless and suitable for farming. It all depends on water treatment plants do they have biogas extractor or not if not then it's no good to be put on fields .

[@jackkeeley6612]

Lol we have it every 3 years after a few days it's fine

[@ral3178]

It makes good fertilizer. Mind your own business and sty on your own property

[@sophabreel]

Also ends up in your food chain.

[@sjd885]

@@sophabreel mmmm, two girls one cup

[@TheMercifulKnight]

These plastic pollutants cause abnormalities in both Men and Women leading to lowered testosterone and low sperm count. Dr Shanna Swan who studied are Berkley did a video recently discussing the physical abnormalities these class of chemicals cause. The British was is to make light of a serious matter and shrug your shoulders and laugh about it on TV.

[@richkingb01]

Wanna guess what i deliver for a living?