Jonny Ingbar
Well-known member
Are you being serious, I can't tell?Should be ok , its been happening for over 100 years, just dont drink the sea !!
Are you being serious, I can't tell?Should be ok , its been happening for over 100 years, just dont drink the sea !!
No not really, was meant to be a dig at what's happening now. The thing is is that these discharges have been going on for over 100 years without anyone really doing anything to stop them. Its only recently that we have been able to see the data.Are you being serious, I can't tell?
It pretty much sums up the clusterfuck that's is this country after a dozen or so years of Tory government I think.No not really, was meant to be a dig at what's happening now. The thing is is that these discharges have been going on for over 100 years without anyone really doing anything to stop them. Its only recently that we have been able to see the data.
Very true. Places like the Firth of Forth literally just screened sewage, removed rags, macerated the rest and discharged directly into the Forth. That type of stuff was common practice in the whole of Britain.No not really, was meant to be a dig at what's happening now. The thing is is that these discharges have been going on for over 100 years without anyone really doing anything to stop them. Its only recently that we have been able to see the data.
Never mind; we can now get rid of those dreadful laws.Very true. Places like the Firth of Forth literally just screened sewage, removed rags, macerated the rest and discharged directly into the Forth. That type of stuff was common practice in the whole of Britain.
It was an EU directive (pesky Europe) that stopped that and forced sewage to be treated before discharge to the sea. The North East has loads of coastal treatment works built in the early 2000's because of that EU directive.
Who said you turned out alrightI went on holidays to my grandparents in Carnforth in the late 70s and 80s. They used to take me swimming in the sea at Blackpool nearly everyday.
I turned out alright
Fairplay.... I think many who know me would agreeWho said you turned out alright
It's disgraceful what the modern world is doing to its oceans.I'd probably leave it a few months...
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Each red dot is a legalised release of untreated sewage, TODAY 06:30am.
Each grey dot is where the monitoring systems are under maintenance and the alerts are switched off.
Source is "Surfers Against Sewage"
The good ship United Kingdom is adrift is a sea of turds navigated by a bunch of uncaring profiteers and incompetents.
If we kill off our oceans, we will kill the planet.It's disgraceful what the modern world is doing to its oceans.
Many people around the world are unaware that everything that goes down their sink including the kitchen,
laundry and bathroom also ends up in the sewerage system which then ends up in the worlds waterways.
Detergents, soap, bleach, cooking oils etc etc etc..
It's mind boggling when you think of all that waste from the billions of homes around the world that are connected
to the sewerage system that is released on a daily basis.
On top of that we have planes jettisoning fuel over the oceans and oil spills from tankers etc etc etc.
No we won't. The planet will go on spinning around the sun, life will survive and evolve and the human race will be nothing more than a stain in the fossil record. The planet will be fine, the human species however (and most of the mega fauna) won't be.If we kill off our oceans, we will kill the planet.
You may be right but life on the planet won’t be fine.No we won't. The planet will go on spinning around the sun, life will survive and evolve and the human race will be nothing more than a stain in the fossil record. The planet will be fine, the human species however (and most of the mega fauna) won't be.
No it won't be "fine", many species will become extinct but others will thrive, evolve and adapt, the oceans will clear and life will return to the blue jewel as it has done following the several extinction periods in its existence.You may be right but life on the planet won’t be fine.
That's all very well but the world over its previous periods didn't have eight billionNo it won't be "fine", many species will become extinct but others will thrive, evolve and adapt, the oceans will clear and life will return to the blue jewel as it has done following the several extinction periods in its existence.
Yes but then it is supposed to be treated before it gets into the waterways. There is no other way to dispose of it other than the waterways but it should be cleaned as it enters under normal conditions.It's disgraceful what the modern world is doing to its oceans.
Many people around the world are unaware that everything that goes down their sink including the kitchen,
laundry and bathroom also ends up in the sewerage system which then ends up in the worlds waterways.
Detergents, soap, bleach, cooking oils etc etc etc..
It's mind boggling when you think of all that waste from the billions of homes around the world that are connected
to the sewerage system that is released on a daily basis.
On top of that we have planes jettisoning fuel over the oceans and oil spills from tankers etc etc etc.
I agree that it is supposed to be treated before being released into the waterways. or being of no other way of disposing of it.Yes but then it is supposed to be treated before it gets into the waterways. There is no other way to dispose of it other than the waterways but it should be cleaned as it enters under normal conditions.
Storm overflows were supposed to happen during storms when there was not the capacity to treat the volume of waste bulked out by loads of excess surface water. If companies are using storm over flows as an alternative to treating waste under normal conditions then they deserve to be prosecuted.