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According to a Guardian investigation, a significant contract to supply poultry to Tesco from over ten years ago may be responsible for the ecological decline of one of the UK's favorite rivers.
The River Wye flows through Herefordshire where bird numbers – and their waste – surged in the year after the supermarket signed a deal with a local processor, Guardian investigation shows
Water that should be crystal clear has become a green-brown slop of microscopic algae because of industrial farm waste
âThe River Wye is covered by every possible conservation law, but in just a few years it has spiralled towards complete ecological collapse.â Photograph: Pepkats Images/Alamy Stock Photo
âThe River Wye is covered by every possible conservation law, but in just a few years it has spiralled towards complete ecological collapse.â Photograph: Pepkats Images/Alamy Stock Photo
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Thereâs more below the surface than we thought â something even worse than the water companiesâ disgusting habit of filling our rivers with raw sewage. After a deep dive into the data, the team that made Rivercide last week discovered that while sewage now dominates our perceptions of river pollution, itâs not their major cause of death.