BASC has accused the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) of serious failings over its lead ammunition review. It has claimed that the agency is “marking its own homework” after the HSE failed to respond to feedback and pushed ahead with proposals to severely restrict the use of lead ammunition. BASC’s Dr Connor O’Gorman said: “Firearms and ammunition manufacturers, shooting organisations, gunshops, clay grounds, rifle ranges, clubs and syndicates and individual shooters have all shown a willingness to engage constructively in last year’s two-month call for evidence. “However, given the contents of the HSE proposals published in May, our collective feedback was clearly not listened to because the HSE ploughed on regardless with a lead ban proposal, largely cut and pasted from proposals published by the European Chemicals Agency a year earlier.” Dr O’Gormon has written to the House of Commons Environment Audit Committee, asking for it to review the way that the HSE has tr
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Over the last few years, we’ve all become well acquainted with sustainability and its many forms. For many of us, making small changes in our everyday lives like opting for reusable shopping bags, KeepCups and avoiding single-use plastics has become second nature. While these individual actions signify a societal shift in our mindset towards the environment, there is still a lot of work to be done on a grander, global scale.
The fashion industry is a massive part of this. According to the House of Commons Environment Audit Committee, the clothing production industry is the third biggest manufacturing industry globally, after the automotive and technology industries. Although it’s not as big, textile production contributes “more to climate change than international aviation and shipping combined”. Huge.