This blog may help people explore some of the 'hidden' issues involved in certain media treatments of environmental and scientific issues. Using personal digital images, it's also intended to emphasise seasonal (and other) changes in natural history of the Swansea (South Wales) area. The material should help participants in field-based modules and people generally interested in the natural world. The views are wholly those of the author.
Wednesday, 21 June 2023
A Nature Reserve? That's Just the Place to Dump Junk PPE!
A 'mountain' of unused Personal Protection Equipment (PPE), has mysteriously appeared close to the Testwood Lakes Nature Reserve, on the edge of Hampshire's New Forest (https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jun/19/mysterious-pile-of-dumped-ppe-angers-people-in-calmore-new-forest-hampshire). The 'mountain' has thousands of boxes, some labelled 'apron' and 'made in China'. 'Locals' are not at all happy as the council will have to fund its removal. Some folk (often with a zero track record) became 'fast track' multi-millionaires, by obtaining PPE for the government in the Covid-19 pandemic. It seems that at least one of them can't be bothered to dispose of surplus (probably inadequate) material appropriately. Doing so might cut into profits.
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