Ralph Ryder clip1

A clip from an interview with Ralph Ryder, activist. Ralph Ryder has been actively involved in environmental activism since the 1980s. He worked for Calor Gas at Ellesmere Port near Liverpool. His workplace was next door to a waste incineration plant that was burning toxic chemicals imported from mainland Europe. He was concerned about pollution from the plant and local people noticed that asthma seemed more common amongst the communities in the area. He established an organisation, Communities Against Toxics (CAT) and regularly produced a magazine, ToxCAT, to publicise research and campaign materials about the ill-effects of toxic waste emissions.