{"id":225412,"date":"2026-01-09T18:35:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T18:35:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/225412\/"},"modified":"2026-01-09T18:35:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T18:35:07","slug":"camber-sands-plastic-pellet-pollution-incident-upgraded","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/225412\/","title":{"rendered":"Camber Sands plastic pellet pollution incident upgraded"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In a joint letter, Helena Dollimore, the MP for Hastings, Rye, and Chris Corrigan, the CEO of the Sussex Wildlife Trust, urged the EA to treat the incident with &#8220;the utmost severity&#8221;, taking into account the &#8220;devastating impact of the incident on local wildlife and protected habitats&#8221;.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Dollimore said: &#8220;It is only right that the EA has escalated this incident to the most serious level. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Southern Water has a responsibility to make amends to our community for this incident and clean up their own mess. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;They made a commitment to fund a programme of nature restoration in our beautiful area, and I will hold them to that promise.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A spokesperson for Southern Water said:  &#8220;We are fully cooperating with regulatory investigations and keeping both regulators and stakeholders updated.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The MP has also launched a petition to end the use of plastic beads in wastewater treatment. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In a joint letter, Helena Dollimore, the MP for Hastings, Rye, and Chris Corrigan, the CEO of the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":225413,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[273,111,139,69,147],"class_list":["post-225412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=225412"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225412\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/225413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}