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By Angus Crawford
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The boy was probably only a teenager. Rummaging through bags of plastic dumped by the side of the road, he was looking for bottles to sell.
In amongst the rubbish, were plastic bags from some of the UK s biggest supermarkets, packaging for cheese, ham and beef burgers.
Our investigation in March 2020 in the southern Turkish City of Adana found that although plastic that had been carefully sorted and separated by households in the UK was being sent to Turkey for recycling, it was, instead, being fly tipped and burned.
This leaves the UK with a real problem.
A woman walks through floodwater in Northwich town centre on Thursday
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Storm Christoph comes after a difficult year for the Environment Agency in which it struggled with the aftermath of last year s winter floods and the Covid-19 pandemic.
Staff shortages throughout 2020 saw up to one in five staff absent, and last week chief executive Sir James Bevan admitted the agency had had “a tough autumn” leading it to miss its flood defence repair targets.
Environment Agency staff absences peaked at more than 18 per cent during September and were never below 13 per cent between May and November, according to data collected under Freedom of Information laws by environmental policy publication ENDS Report.