Mapping the spread of muck from factory farms

Alongside our friends at Sustain and Friends of the Earth, we’ve mapped out fresh research showing the likely pollution caused by waste from factory farms. You can search your location in this interactive map and see how where you live compares to the rest of the UK.

Slurry from farmed animals are high in phosphates and nitrates. The volume and size of our factory farms here in the UK mean excessive amounts of slurry - or “muck” - washes into soils and rivers in volumes they cannot sustain.

The results? Soils in every region of England are now too high in nitrogen. We see Special Areas of Conservation, such as the River Wye in Wales facing ecological crisis. This affects the UK’s wildlife – and we are already one of the most nature depleted countries in the world.

It needs to stop here before it’s too late. Will you email Angela Rayner, Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, to put an end to new factory farm proposals?