Are those biodegradable?

"Dollimore, the Labour and Cooperative MP who joined the clean-up efforts,"

The water companies are too busy lobbying for price rises/manufacturing consent in the media (of which these stories are a part of. The water companies will again claim they are a victim of low bills meaning they can't invest which is what causes these events...)

It's all so insidious

UK gov will permit bills to rise and nothing will fundamentally change when it comes to water in the UK except how much we pay

From a wastewater treatment plant no less.

"This is the one thing we didn't want to happen"

UK government makes me sick, and what makes me even more sick is that no political party in the UK seems capable of fixing what needs to be fixed; they all focus on the particular populist opinions within their particular voter bases.

It's really quite sad. I just wish people would work together to compromise but it seems all over the world there's this intense tribal effect. I guess evolution is to blame, we never evolved to live in such large groups as we are now and as individuals modern life is far too complicated to have enough attention span to worry about every little thing, especially when governments and corporations often purposefully make it very difficult.