DIRT is a magazine that tells the truth about the pollution faced by communities living near landfills, incinerators and industrial processes. It gives readers ideas and contacts about fighting their own pollution problems.

DIRT 1 covers, in some detail, various campaigns against polluting landfills, incinerators and cement works. For example, RANT (Residents Against Nantygwyddon Tip) fought a long campaign and with the aid of an in-depth specialist report from the Welsh Assembly, they finally forced the closure of their polluting landfill in March 2002.

Rugby in Plume has forced the Environment Agency to re-evaluate the burning of waste in cement kilns.They have also made both the local council and local health authority ask for in-depth health and environmental impact reports into tyre burning in cement kilns. In Newcastle, the two groups CAIR (Campaign Against Incineration of Refuse) and BAN Waste have not only campaigned against the very real hazards of the Byker incinerator, but also set-up their own ‘select committee on waste’ to look into the whole issue of waste minimization, recycling and composting in the North East. All of the local environmental campaigns covered in DIRT have been successful in improving their local environment.