Rural Crime: Government facing legal action over contaminated sewage sludge on farms

Campaigners say harmful substances in fertiliser are threatening human health and wildlife through a lack of regulation.

A campaign group is taking legal action against the Government alleging it abandoned a pledge to regulate microplastics and toxic chemicals in sewage spread over farmland.

Fighting Dirty argue the Government acted unlawfully by scrapping a commitment to reduce the use of harmful substances that are being washed into rivers and may be working their way through the human food chain.

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