'Harmful to aquatic life with long-lasting effects' - is much-used consumer product harming Britain's ecosystem?

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THE new book by Swift campaigner Hannah Bourne-Taylor will not best please multinational consumer goods group Procter and Gamble

In her reflections on the threat to insects and other biodiversity from chemical products, she highlights the wording on the packaging of one of the company's best-known products, Fairy Liquid.

Writes Ms Bourne-Taylor: "In plain sight, it tells anyone who cares out of the 13 million British  households who buy 150 million  bottles of it a year to stop using it.

"Its own label states that  it is 'harmful to aquatic life with long-lasting effects'."

Continues the author: "Does our government challenge the product-makers?

"Have I been alone in thinking the that politicians will do everything they can do to keep us all fundamentally safe and healthy?

"I felt like I had been sleepwalking through my whole life. I had been naive to the existence of lobby groups."

Nature Needs You - The Fight To Save Our Swifts is published by Elliott and Thompson at £16.99 in hardback.

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