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The annual list of the country's top polluters is now out, and there are few surprises.
As they do every year, the Scottish Environment Protection Agency has compiled a surprisingly long list of those companies which pollute the country the most. Waste and landfill sites are the most common offenders, but sewage treatment, fish farms and even a cheese company all make it onto the list of shame.
You could look at this two ways. The first, that it is depressing that so many companies flout environmental regulations and that SEPA needs to use the stick more in their approach to these businesses, in particular those repeat offenders that find themselves on the list years after year. Government ministers, too, should be refusing to give contracts or publicity to companies that find themselves on the list.
The second way of looking at it is that at least we have the list. At least we know who the polluters are, rather than the information being classified or worse, never collected. While there is doubt that the public naming and shaming is actually working, there is a possibility that a plant manager might find himself horrified to be on the list and change some working practices.
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