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Ban on wet wipes containing plastic unveiled to help UK’s rivers (www.independent.co.uk)

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Wet wipes containing plastic are finally set to be banned across the UK as ministers warn a ‘step change’ is needed to protect the country’s rivers.

The long-awaited announcement comes after a campaign against the products which have been blamed for hundreds of thousands of blockages in the UK sewer system costing millions of pounds a year.

Manufacturers have also come under fire discarded wipes increasingly littering Britain's beaches.

Under plans to be set out by the environment secretary Steve Barclay it will become illegal to sell or supply wet wipes which contain plastic.

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[–] crapwittyname@lemm.ee 10 points 6 months ago

These motherfuckers. These fucking ghouls. They've changed the law to allow corporations to pump as much shit into our rivers and seas as they can, resulting in people, children, getting sick. Resulting in scenes where there is a turbid, bubbling brown froth OF HUMAN SHIT on the surface of the sea where people are bathing.
They've destroyed our waterways so quickly it's almost impressive.
And now, to "help our rivers", the rivers these cunts have destroyed, remember, they are going to blame normal people for flushing shitty wet wipes down the bog. How many million tonnes of shitty wet wipes per year do the sewage plants have to deal with? How many tonnes of human and animal faeces are pumped out into our waterways? If you want to help our rivers, STOP LETTING YOUR RICH MATES PUMP EXCREMENT INTO OUR RIVERS