As part of the infamous and award winning Return To Offender campaign, Surfers Against Sewage (SAS) have identified the 12 companies whose products they most frequently find littering UK beaches. On each of the 12 days of Christmas, AKA Christmastide, SAS will send each offending company a beautiful, yet shocking, image of their products on a snow-covered beach. The contrast of these offending rubbish items resting on the pure white snow, with glimpses of yellow sand and the stunning blue Atlantic as the back drop, will hopefully compel the company into subscribing to SAS’s Return To Offender campaign to reduce the impact of their product packaging on the marine environment.

SAS’s Return To Offender campaign sends pieces of identifiable marine litter back to the parent company, calling for them to:

•  To step up ‘the anti-littering’ message on their 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

SAS’s Christmastide top 12 are:

Maufacturer	Counts	Percantage of Total
1. Coca Cola	83	10.4
2. Walkers Snacks	65	8.15
3. Nestle	64	8.02
4. Kraft	57	7.14
5. Tesco	42	5.26
6. United Biscuits	35	4.39
7. Mars	30	3.76
8. PepsiCo	30	3.76
9. Unilever	27	3.38
10. In-Bev	20	2.51
11. Glaxosmithkline	20	2.51
12. Carlsberg	15	1.88
Christmastide Total	488	61%
Overall Total Individual Products Sent	798
Total Number of Parent Companies	155	39%