• Posts Tagged 'Marine plastics'

08.06.10 - Beach Cleans, Campaigns, Education, Marine Litter, News, Return To Offender, Threats To Watersports

SAS’s ‘Dirty Dozen’ Highlights The Growing Problem Of Marine Litter

To mark World Ocean Day, clean water campaigners Surfers Against Sewage (SAS) are highlighting the ‘Dirty Dozen’ of identifiable beach litter items to help tackle the blight of rubbish on UK beaches. SAS is releasing the ‘Dirty Dozen’ league table, revealing the 12 companies to which it has sent the most identifiable beach litter back to as part of the award winning Return To Offender campaign. The Return To Offender campaign is one of SAS’s most successful marine litter campaigns to date. Launched in 2006, SAS has sent almost 600 items of identifiable marine litter back to the companies producing them.... Read more

01.04.10 - Campaigns, Marine Litter, News, UFO's

SAS witness UFOs landing on UK beaches

Today clean water campaigners Surfers Against Sewage (SAS) are launching a new campaign after witnessing UFO's invading UK beaches. SAS's UFOs campaign of course refers to Unidentified Floating Objects! The new campaign calls on the public to help identify persistent marine litter and allows them to upload their own UFOs, in the hope that SAS can trace the polluters and change their damaging industrial practices. SAS have captured 2 types of mysterious UFO and are calling on the public's expertise to help identify what they are used for, by whom and where. Armed with this information SAS will be able to... Read more

01.03.10 - Beach Cleans, Campaigns, Marine Litter, News

SAS’s Annual Spring Beach Clean

Today is the 1st of March and the Met Office has called it the first day of spring. To welcome spring we organised beach cleans over the weekend all around the UK with the help of our SAS reps. At Porthtowan we had over 80 volunteers collecting over 150 bags with a weight of 220kgs. We had sunshine, surf, rainbows and a great atmosphere. Thanks to Blue for the free hot chocolates and coffees! The great atmosphere was evident at all the beach cleans over the weekend. The most litter was collected in the Isle of Wight, with Joe and the team... Read more