Tess Colley

Award-winning environment journalist. Deputy Editor @TheENDSreport 🌍 Bylines in @guardian @SthLondonPress
Previously @BBCNewsPR ✉️ [email protected]

[Tess Colley @TessColley]

There's a concrete yard with piles of plastic and lying on the ground is the body of a boy – grotesquely ripped apart.

Who was he? And what happened to him? A team of investigative journalists set out to find out.

OUT NOW❗️

Search for Boy Wasted wherever you get your podcasts

[Tess Colley @TessColley]

NEW: Lawyers ‘gathering views’ after government throws out all species protection proposals from own scientists

https://t.co/bh0aeqaca3

[Tess Colley @TessColley]

Find the Boy Wasted series on @TheENDSReport's Eco Chamber feed, wherever you get your podcasts.

With incredible reporting from Adnan Khan, hosted by
@danielashby, @lucytaylor, & UK probing by me & @neill_pippa. With support from @journalismfund.

[Tess Colley @TessColley]

Catch Adnan Khan & me speaking to @KateLaycock from @DeutscheWelle's Inside Europe podcast about Boy Wasted - our podcast telling the story of a body found in a bale of plastic in Turkey - & what it has to do with us in western Europe.

At 31 mins 👇
https://t.co/h8jyUTbmU3

[Pippa Neill @neill_pippa]

Great to hear @TessColley and Adnan Khan discuss the findings of our podcast Boy Wasted on Inside Europe (31 mins in!)

"9 million containers pass through British ports every year and there are five Environment Agency officers in England checking them"

https://t.co/Be1tmRPLNY

[Tess Colley @TessColley]

It follows Labour MP Barry Gardiner launching a campaign "for real change" off the back of the investigation.

More in this thread below

https://t.co/1ORMVrttZ4

[Tess Colley @TessColley]

An MP is starting a campaign 'for real change' following a joint ENDS investigation revealing that 🚨 hundreds of boys & men have died 🚨 in recycling plants in Turkey – a top UK plastic export destination.

He'll launch it at Labour Party conference..

https://t.co/2rnPGu5AEv

[Tess Colley @TessColley]

Was delighted to join a panel Labour Party conference this week to talk about ENDS' true crime investigation - Boy Wasted.

The audience hears how our findings showed that plastic waste is a ‘public health emergency’ - not just an environmental one 👇

https://t.co/Sr3Hg2EKcm

[Tess Colley @TessColley]

I’m back from Labour conference with a new understanding the party's approach on 'nature vs. building' – you may not like it...

@TheENDSReport

https://t.co/KEXk3yBZ7x

[Tess Colley @TessColley]

If the government brings forward a new planning bill it will most likely be a 'Nature Bill' to replace the Habitats Regulations and EU-derived nature protections, a former No.10 advisor on planning and economics told me at Labour Party Conference 👇

https://t.co/6Qbory9gNI

[Tess Colley @TessColley]

The panel, at 2pm on 28 Sept at the Staybridge Suites, features:

Chair: @BarryGardiner MP
@lucytaylor - Producer, @Smoketrail
@WillGreenpeace - Greenpeace UK
Dan Cooke - Chartered Institute of Waste Management
And me - @TheENDSReport deputy editor

Listen to Boy Wasted now

[Tess Colley @TessColley]

An MP is starting a campaign 'for real change' following a joint ENDS investigation revealing that 🚨 hundreds of boys & men have died 🚨 in recycling plants in Turkey – a top UK plastic export destination.

He'll launch it at Labour Party conference..

https://t.co/2rnPGu5AEv

[Tess Colley @TessColley]

At the Labour Party Conference @BarryGardiner MP is convening a panel I'll be speaking on to discuss the findings of Boy Wasted, and the tonnes of plastic we in the UK export abroad.

2pm at Solidarity Cafe in the Staybridge Suites on 28th Sept

Come join!
https://t.co/MQfsv2dmha

[ENDS Report @TheENDSReport]

The panel, at 2pm on 28 September at the Staybridge Suites in Liverpool, features:

Chair - @BarryGardiner MP
Tess Colley - ENDS deputy editor
@lucytaylor - Producer, @smoketrailprod
Will McCallum - @GreenpeaceUK
Dan Cooke - Chartered Institute of Waste Management

Join us!

[ENDS Report @TheENDSReport]

🚨Are you going to Labour Party Conference?

On Sunday, ENDS' @TessColley, will be speaking on a panel at 2pm to discuss our new true crime podcast, Boy Wasted, and the issue of plastic exports, crime, and recycling.

Join her at Solidarity Cafe ⬇️

https://t.co/2GTTLgSBZV

[Tess Colley @TessColley]

'We thought we were looking into one mysterious body..what emerged was a whole broken system full of criminality & death'

Our Boy Wasted investigation reveals a bloody underworld at the bottom of your recycling bin.

Listen wherever you get your podcasts.
https://t.co/jgdoAxMlMf

[Pippa Neill @neill_pippa]

I'm looking forward to attending this event at the Labour Party on Sunday, where @lucytaylor and @TessColley will discuss our Boy Wasted podcast.

The event will be hosted by @BarryGardiner

https://t.co/RR7u69XgdK

[Tess Colley @TessColley]

There's a concrete yard with piles of plastic and lying on the ground is the body of a boy – grotesquely ripped apart.

Who was he? And what happened to him? A team of investigative journalists set out to find out.

OUT NOW❗️

Search for Boy Wasted wherever you get your podcasts

[Tess Colley @TessColley]

The UK's biggest export is waste..

..but the Environment Agency only has five full time port officers across all of England.

This and more in our new true crime podcast - Boy Wasted.

Listen to the series on @TheENDSReport's Eco Chamber podcast feed now.
https://t.co/H6BSJ44WjX

[Tess Colley @TessColley]

🚨🚨Campaigners have called on the govt to ban all plastic waste exports following a joint ENDS investigation out yesterday.

It revealed hundreds of boys and men have been killed in recycling factories in Turkey - a top destination for UK waste exports👇
https://t.co/Py4CNQxEFs

[Tess Colley @TessColley]

🚨REVEALED🚨: Hundreds of boys and men killed in recycling plants in Turkey – a top UK plastic export destination

This story came out of a true crime investigation involving a bale a plastic, a mystery body, and what we put in our recycling bins.

👇👇👇
https://t.co/4pjnIsmOG9

[Tess Colley @TessColley]

There's a concrete yard with piles of plastic and lying on the ground is the body of a boy – grotesquely ripped apart.

Who was he? And what happened to him? A team of investigative journalists set out to find out.

OUT NOW❗️

Search for Boy Wasted wherever you get your podcasts

[Tess Colley @TessColley]

Produced by the award-winning team behind the BBC's Buried series @smoketrailprod w/ funding from @journalismfund, & published by @TheENDSReport
& @DeGroene.

With incredible reporting from @AdnanRafiqKhan, hosted by @danielashby & @lucytaylor, & UK probing by me & @neill_pippa

[Tess Colley @TessColley]

There's a concrete yard with piles of plastic and lying on the ground is the body of a boy – grotesquely ripped apart.

Who was he? And what happened to him? A team of investigative journalists set out to find out.

OUT NOW❗️

Search for Boy Wasted wherever you get your podcasts

[Tess Colley @TessColley]

Boy Wasted lifts the lid on the underbelly of the global plastic waste industry, and takes you all the way back to what we in the UK and western Europe put in our recycling bins.

It's been an incredible and heart-breaking project to work on, please listen and share!