{"id":751444,"date":"2026-08-27T13:38:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-27T13:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/751444\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T13:38:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T13:38:09","slug":"michael-sheen-hopes-reaction-to-toxic-waste-documentary-spurs-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/751444\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Sheen hopes reaction to toxic waste documentary spurs action"},"content":{"rendered":"

Michael Sheen has welcomed the reaction to his documentary investigating Wales’ toxic waste legacy, saying he hopes it pushes the relevant authorities to “find a solution”.<\/p>\n

Dozens of people contacted BBC Wales<\/a> following coverage of Sheen’s investigation into chemical giant Monsanto and the dumping of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs).<\/p>\n

One of them was a former Monsanto worker who spent three years helping to seal toxic waste underground and said staff had “cheap” protective equipment and were not told what they were burying.<\/p>\n

Eastman Chemical Company, which is responsible for Monsanto’s legacy production in the UK, did not respond to either Sheen and his team or the BBC when asked to comment.<\/p>\n

Asked about the response to the documentary,<\/a> Sheen said he wanted “to see something actually happen”.<\/p>\n

“So getting a response was a really important part of it, and hoping that response would push the people who are in positions to get on with it,” he said.<\/p>\n

Sheen said he had received “extraordinary messages” from people who wanted to tell their stories and how they had been affected.<\/p>\n

“There’s a lot of stuff for us to follow up,” he said.<\/p>\n

Sheen said he hoped “people in the more official areas” would respond as well and “work with us on it”.<\/p>\n

“We want to find a solution rather than something that keeps putting people in a position where they have to put breaks on because they can’t afford to get involved in this, so we really want to find a solution to this.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Michael Sheen has welcomed the reaction to his documentary investigating Wales’ toxic waste legacy, saying he hopes it…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":751445,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[96,2839,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-751444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=751444"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751444\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/751445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=751444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=751444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=751444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}