The 2022 Commonwealth Games could become greener than ever before, as a motion is passed to help one of the UK’s biggest cities become plastic free. It comes as campaigners in Birmingham strive to create Plastic Free Communities, as part of the Surfers Against Sewage (SAS) campaign to rid the UK of avoidable single-use […]
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Incredible Women Leading the Charge to Protect Planet Ocean
In celebration of International Women’s Day on Friday 8th March, this week we’ve announced a special selection of remarkable women leading the charge to protect our planet. The Women Earth Defenders list shines a spotlight on incredible individuals and luminaries in environmental campaigning, ocean advocacy, social justice, art, science, sport and politics. Among the 18 […]
The first nation-wide Mass Unwrap is underway. How can you join in?
From the 3rd to the 10th of March, Surfers Against Sewage have organised a series of Mass Unwrap events in supermarkets across the UK to call for action to tackle wasteful and avoidable single-use plastic. Mass Unwrap is a fun, high-impact action that highlights exactly how much plastic waste is produced in UK supermarkets after every […]
Island communities lead the fight against plastic pollution
Surfers Against Sewage and Parley for the Oceans are launching a pilot project aiming to tackle marine plastic pollution on Cold Water islands by implementing innovative, community-based solutions. The initiative is part of our ‘Cold Water Islands Project’, a collaboration with Parley for the Oceans to develop a strategy that volunteer-led island communities will work […]
PUPILS URGE MICHAEL GOVE TO INCLUDE ALL BOTTLES IN DEPOSIT RETURN SCHEME
POWER TO THE PUPILS! Yesterday the incredible pupils of Damers First School in Dorchester met with the Environment Secretary, Michael Gove outside Westminster Abbey to call for an ‘ALL IN’ drinks bottle deposit return scheme (DRS). The students were invited to take part in the event, organised by our fellow campaigners the Campaign to Protect Rural […]
Growing trend to reduce plastic at events sees Glastonbury ditch single-use plastic bottles
One of the UK’s biggest festivals has announced that for the first time it will be ditching single-use plastic drinking bottles. Organisers of the iconic Glastonbury Festival say they will be banning any sale of the drinks bottles on site – and they won’t be available in any of the festival’s backstage, production, catering […]
Are you #GenerationSea?
#GenerationSea is a new movement we’re building to save and secure the future of our oceans and beaches. If you join #GenerationSea you’ll be able to help us with a range of actions including signing and sharing petitions, contacting your MP, collecting evidence from shorelines and promoting the campaign on social media. We’re seizing this […]
Where next for Surfers Against Sewage campaigns in 2019?
More than 4,197 supporters have completed the survey about our oceans. Thank you! Your answers provide powerful evidence of our concerns about the health of the ocean. They show clearly the need for greater laws and regulation to conserve the ocean environment, so crucial to human health and wellbeing. We have been overwhelmed by the […]
Five Steps to Leading a Community
We’ve created Plastic Free Communities to free where we live from single-use. Wherever you live, whether you’re on shore or inland, urban or rural, high-tide or high-rise, we’re uniting communities in the fight against avoidable plastics. It’s not about removing all plastic from our lives. It’s about kicking our addiction to throwaway plastic and changing […]
Small businesses urged to back fight against limit on plastic bottle deposit return scheme
Small businesses are being urged to get behind a call to back a new scheme that will give people money back for recycling plastic bottles and cans – of all sizes. It comes after the Government revealed a new consultation today to overhaul the current waste and recycling system in the UK, including the proposed […]