The Government Needs to Do Something About Sewage Spills

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One of the key pledges was on toilet flushes, but it kind of pales in comparison to what's happening already with all of our sewage. Fiona Harvey: Do you think this is going to spur us on at all? The key message for me is that there's a lot of targets there... But we're missing hard decisions that some people won't like"

This week the government published a major environmental improvement plan for England. It has pledged that every household will be within a 15-minute walk of green space or water, the restoration of 1.2m acres of wildlife habitat, and that sewage spills will be tackled with upgrades to wastewater treatment works. Madeleine Finlay speaks to the Guardian’s environment editor, Fiona Harvey, about the state of nature in the UK, what this plan promises to do, and whether it’s ambitious enough to halt and reverse damage done.. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/sciencepod