UK becoming ‘toxic poster-child of Europe’

Campaigners say Britain is becoming the ”toxic poster child of Europe” as it fails to outlaw 36 pesticides recently banned by the EU, the Guardian reports.

According to research from Pesticide Action Network (PAN), the UK is failing to phase out pesticides that have been found by the EU to be harmful to human health and the environment, the paper said.

Thirty of the 36

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