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Richard Daniel chairs the interactive environmental programme in which he and his guests deal with listeners' questions and concerns.
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|  | | | | "Home Planet, the programme that tackles your queries about the world we inhabit and our interaction with it. From astronomy to geology, biology to environmental science. You set the agenda and our panel of scientists and conservationists come up with the answers."
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Professor Philip Stott
Recording at the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust - Slimbridge. Wed 10th September at 5:00pm
We will be recording a special edition of the programme at the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust centre at Slimbridge in Gloucestershire. If you want to come along and pose a question for the panel then please do email, phone the helpline or write to us, contact details are below. If you just want to come and meet the panel and be part of the audience then you will be more than welcome. Just come to the centre for 5:00pm.
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Head lice search
We are asking for your help in tracking the spread of head lice in the UK, how they are treated and how different organisations deal with outbreaks. If you have any recent experience of head lice please do let us know at home.planet@bbc.co.uk.
This week's programme
Where does the rubber worn away from tyres end up?
Every car tyre loses a small amount of rubber in the form of dust as it wears. With 30 million vehicles on the roads in Britain this means a lot of tyre dust in the environment. A listener asked what happened to this dust and is it an environmental hazard.
A detailed, technical, list of .
from Dunlop Tyres.
An article on from the Ecologist magazine.
Are trees starved of nutrients in the city and does this mean that they seek out water and damage sewers?
Two listeners commented on different but related aspects of trees growing in cities, whether they were starved and their ability to seek out and damage sewers.
A 麻豆官网首页入口 Consumer guide on .
A .
An article on .
An article outlining , including a table advising what distance trees should be planted from buildings.
Why can't nuclear waste be re-used so all the radioactivity is consumed in energy production and it is no longer dangerous?
A listener asked why the radiation remaining in nuclear waste cannot be re-used so that the waste itself is rendered harmless.
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Information on from the World Nuclear Association.
An article on .
from the Nuclear Industry Association.
Information on the from the French Nuclear Energy Agency.
What is the herbicide Aminopyralid and why has it been causing problems on allotments?
A listener asked what was the problem with the herbicide aminopyralid and how gardeners might be sure of using manure that had not been contaminated with it.
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The , including a list of the products which contain aminopyralid.
An from the Observer newspaper.
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