Return to Offender

We are encouraging all our supporters to TAKE ACTION and be an active part of SAS's award winning anti beach litter campaign Return To Offender. The Return To Offender campaign challenges companies whose litter is found on UK beaches to:

• To step up 'the anti-littering' message on your products.
• To look at using less harmful packaging to ensure products can be broken down naturally without putting wildlife at risk.
• To promote recycling and/or reuse wherever appropriate.
• To support community beach litter initiatives or anti-litter projects.

Click here and down load your own SAS Return To Offender campaign message (Word Doc format). Simply fill in the spaces with the details of where you found the beach litter and send it along with whatever identifiable beach litter you find to the manufacturer.

A letter explained can be found by clicking here (Word Doc format).

Responses from some of the companies involved can be found here.

The campaign was launched in April 2006 with the help of O'Neill pro surfers who temporarily stopped competing at the 6 star World Qualifying Series Highland Open surfing competition to contact companies whose litter had been found polluting the local beaches by SAS campaigners. Involved in the action were Team O'Neill surfers Nick Rozsa (USA), Noi Kaulukakui (USA), Hugo Savalli (Reunion), Duncan Scott (South Africa) andSam Lamiroy (UK). The surfers joined SAS in making a mass mobile phone-in from the beach tothose companies identified from the litter collected.

Since then the Return To Offender campaign has won the Coast award for best campaign in 2007 and sent back a multitude of marine litter. To move this campaign forward we need you involvement. With your help this campaign can make a real difference to what we find on our beaches. You're not only an environmentalist, you're a consumer, and so these big companies will listen to what you have to say. Download your form here and get yourself along to the post box.

What we will send back this Week

Jun 29th	Jun 30th
Jul 1st	Jul 2nd
Jul 3rd	Jul 4th
Jul 5th

An archive of everything we have sent back so far can be found here.

(Handy hint; if you are researching the companies address, why not ask their customer service if there is a free post address.)

Responses

To read some of our responses below (click to enlarge), we just loved the Lucozade response, the rest of the responses are what you'd expect from these big companies.

Responses Part 1
Responses Part 2
Responses Part 3

Related Articles

30th Oct 09	Return to Offender Archive
30th Oct 09	Take Action With Return to Offender
4th Mar 08	SAS Win 'Best Environmental Campaign' Award
21st Jan 08	Beach litter returned to source in Holland by SAS
5th Jun 07	SAS Tackle Tide Litter on World Environment Day
26th Apr 06	Pro Surfers from across the globe help SAS launch radical anti-beach litter campiagn at O'Neill WQS Comp
13th Apr 06	Return to Offender - Address Known

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