Cleaner Seas
This Christmas #BinIt4Beaches and the Love Water partnership are reminding people of the problems caused by putting fats, oils and grease going down the sink instead of into the proper bin, and how easy it is to avoid them.
This Christmas millions of people will be preparing a traditional roast dinner for the family. Much time and effort goes into preparing and cooking the roast dinner, but there’s not many of us who like to spend much time clearing …
Walking up and down beaches with sampling gear during a heatwave may not be everyone’s ideal job but I wouldn’t want to be anywhere else. I am lucky that during the summer, my job consists of sampling the water quality …
Every year millions of us visit beaches and lakes across England. Over 400 of these are designated as bathing waters and it’s the Environment Agency’s job to test the water at each to see how clean it is and provide …
30 years in the job and I’m still being approached by members of the public commenting on just how fabulous our beaches are. There’s not many people who can count themselves lucky enough to go to the beach every day …
Turning Tides is a cross-agency partnership working together to do everything possible to improve the quality of bathing waters in North West England. Five years ago the partnership generated the LOVEmyBEACH campaign as a method to engage with the general …
Every job has its highs and its lows and very occasionally something so extraordinary happens it is left indelibly stamped on your mind. One such event was the MSC Napoli – a 62,000 tonne container vessel ‘shipwrecked’ off the UK’s …