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A grim green bath bomb dissolves in yellow water

Toxic Dips: The Rivers Trust launch the world’s most expensive (fake) bath bombs on eBay

  • The Rivers Trust
  • News
The three-piece set of ​‘Toxic Dips’ bath bombs is priced at ÂŁ300,000, just 0.005% of the amount being spent to stop UK rivers deteriorating further over the next five years.

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Big River Watch Launch: A first look at the data

  • Emma Brisdion
With over 3,600 surveys submitted for the first ever Big River Watch, our river experts have been busy exploring the data gathered by citizen scientists across the UK and Ireland.

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An innovation that is really making the world a worse place: why The Rivers Trust is supporting a ban on single-use vapes in Ireland

  • Matthew Woodard
In a radio interview last October, Irish Minister of State Ossian Smyth was clear that single-use disposable vapes need to ​“be banned completely” because, as he has pointed out, they are an ​“example of an innovation that is really making the world a worse place

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