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.
Thursday, 14 August 2025
Wiping It From the Face of the Earth?
An 'island' of wet-wipes , the size of 2 tennis courts (circa 522 square metres), has accumulated by London's Hammersmith bridge over the Thames (https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/aug/14/wet-wipe-island-london-river-thames-pollution-hammersmith-bridge). This rotting, putrid mass consequently has to be cleaned up at great expense. It presumably originates from untreated sewage discharged into the river. This island is yet more evidence of the inappropriate behaviour of Thames Water. Telling folk not to flush wet-wipes isn't the answer.
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