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| | | Richard Daniel chairs the interactive environmental programme in which he and his guests deal with listener's questions and concerns.
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|  | | | | "Home Planet is the environmental programme for which you set the agenda. We tackle your questions and concerns and try and make some sense out of the conflicting opinions which make up the environmental debate."
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Panel
Susan Buckingham
Brunel University
Professor Philip Stott
University of London
Dr David Erwin
Chief Executive, Ulster Wildlife Trust
Topics
PCBs
I have recently read that PCBs in mackerel are reaching dangerous levels. What is the truth in this and what harm can PCBs do?
Institute of Food Science and Technology
Macaulay Institute: Scottish Soil
British Dietetic Association: Fish PCBs and Dioxins
BBC News story
Food Standards Agency: Fish advice
Rural transport
Can the Home Planet panel see a day when country areas receive better public transport - a service based on need and not the size of population. If so, will the environment benefit?
Cumbria transport
Department of Transport: Rural Bus Challenge
Downing Street: press release
Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions (2000b) Transport 2010: the 10 year plan
Shadow Strategic Rail Authority (2000) Developing rural railways: options for decentralised operations on secondary lines
Commission for Integrated Transport: factsheet
Commission for Integrated Transport: annual report
Countryside Agency: rural services in 2000
Countryside Agency: rural transport
Centre for Transport Studies: Accessibility Research Group
Coffee and garden pests
If slugs are really killed by weak coffee, as recently reported, at first sight it seems the answer to many gardeners' prayers. But what about the effect on things that eat the coffee-flavoured slugs, like thrushes or hedgehogs? And since the original solution containing caffeine was being tested for controlling tree frogs, does this mean coffee might kill amphibians?
Safety data for caffeine
Ananova news story
Wildlife Trust: amphibian advice
Corks
I have recently returned from Cologne where, in several restaurants and shops, I saw collection points for wine corks. Is there any collection agency in the UK. If not is it worth encouraging people to recycle them? Do the Germans know something we don't?
Cork Supply USA
Talus Vineyards
BBC News story
RSPB
American Plastics Council
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