The government must take a circular economy approach to tackling nitrogen pollution

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Nitrogen pollution from farming, wastewater and industry can damage human health and the environment - the government must deliver a strategy for tackling it, writes Baroness Sheehan, chair of the House of Lords' Environment and Climate Change Committee

Nitrogen is an essential chemical element for all living things. Indeed, it constitutes nearly 80 per cent of the air we breathe. However, when nitrogen combines with other elements it can form dangerous...

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