The Independent deploys journalists to cover reproductive rights, climate change and Big Tech and funds accessible reporting through donations rather than paywalls. Donations enable on-the-ground reporting and interviews with both sides during critical US moments. A Wildlife Trusts study finds pig and poultry sectors produce about 10.4 million cubic metres of waste annually, equivalent to 4,160 Olympic-sized swimming pools. High levels of nitrogen and phosphorus in manure make sustainable farmland use difficult and cause pollution in rivers, harming water quality and freshwater wildlife. Production is concentrated in hotspots and more than a third of the UK wheat crop goes to pig and poultry feed, expanding land impacts.
Pollution from the pig and poultry farming sectors is harming the environment, a report has warned. The findings from the report from the Wildlife Trusts into the environmental impact of the sectors reveal the waste from producing millions of pigs and billions of birds and eggs a year is about 10.4 million cubic metres annually the equivalent to 4,160 Olympic-sized swimming pools.
The high levels of nutrients, such as nitrogen and phosphorus, in the manure make it hard to use it on farmland sustainably, and cause pollution in habitats including rivers which harms water quality and the wildlife that lives in the freshwater environment. The situation is particularly acute in the hotspots where poultry and pig production are concentrated, the report warns. The study, commissioned by the Wildlife Trusts
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