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25 March 2025
Burning Rubber
The poisonous afterlife of waste tyres
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12 February 2025
‘Cocktail of contaminants’
Burning plastic and emitting toxic gases has become central to ‘plastic offsetting’ claims
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27 November 2024
Manufactured Doubt
The plastics industry is taking lessons from Big Oil to undermine science
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17 October 2024
Meat giant’s bone incinerator could break emissions laws
Dawn Meats’ planned incinerator in rural Ireland could breach legal limits on ‘irritant gas’, leaked documents show
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9 February 2024
Secret Sewers
Hundreds of unmonitored ‘emergency overflows’ are located in conservation areas and some are used routinely, documents reveal
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13 November 2023
‘Get Out of Jail Free’
How plastics offsetting is giving industry a licence to pollute
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4 February 2021
Dirty white elephants
Incinerators were supposed to solve the UK’s waste crisis. Are they making it worse?
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4 December 2020
Revealed: Northern Ireland officials used dodgy numbers to secure biogas bonanza
Documents obtained by SourceMaterial show how a tiny tweak in a ministry submission to Brussels unlocked hundreds of millions in subsidies
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10 October 2020
Muck for Brass: Watchdog shuts down £6.5m biogas gaming scheme
Muck for Brass: Watchdog shuts down £6.5m biogas gaming following SourceMaterial investigation
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13 November 2018
Muck for Brass
How agribusiness and opportunists are turning Northern Ireland's poo mountain to cash - and endangering the environment
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