Campaigners battling to make their local coastlines, towns and cities a cleaner, safer place are being urged to join a growing Regional Rep programme, aimed at uniting communities to effect real environmental change. National charity Surfers Against Sewage (SAS) originally launched the Regional Rep initiative in a bid to create cleaner, sewage-free coastlines back in 2010 […]
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Call to volunteers after record beach cleans across the UK
Today, we launch our biggest ever Autumn Beach Clean mobilising 20,000 volunteers at 500 events across the UK. The cleans will take place between 19th – 27th of October. We are calling for volunteers to register events on beaches, rivers, mountains and urban areas. The cleans make up part of our ‘Plastic Free Communities’ movement […]
Surfers Against Sewage responds to Southern Water OFWAT fine
SAS have, in close collaboration with our reps network, released an official consultation response to the investigation of Southern Waters breach of licence conditions and statutory duties. The response has today (19th July) been submitted to OFWAT – the water services regulation authority in England and Wales. The investigation relate to incidents that took place between 2010 […]
New Plastic Free Communities Advisory Group Launched
Surfers Against Sewage brings together Community Leads from across the UK to inform and help shape an exciting new phase of the campaign. Almost 600 communities in the UK are working to free where they live from single-use plastic using Surfers Against Sewage Plastic Free Community Toolkit, which lays out five steps for a community […]
Gove backs ‘all-in’ deposit return system for drinks containers.
Michael Gove, Environment Secretary, has today (16th July) in a speech at Kew Gardens outlined his support for a comprehensive deposit return system (DRS) that covers the “maximum amount of potentially polluting packaging”, covering all sizes of cans and bottles. Gove explained how the ‘all-in’ system, supported and informed by Surfers Against Sewage since its […]
Take a Plastic Free Holiday
Summer is well and truly on us! Before the schools break up and the mass exodus starts, we thought we’d share some great action and advice from our Plastic Free Communities, who are all helping us reduce our plastic impact over the holidays. It can sometimes be hard when away from home or out of […]
Paddle Against Plastic Pollution
On Monday 8th July, Mike Lacey, Alan Stokes, Sam & Will Boex, Ben Skinner, Lukas Skinner, Emily Currie, Jayce Robinson, Rich Lacey & Kelvin Batt and Dom Moore set off from Porthcurno to paddle 32 miles to The Isles of Scilly in aid of SAS! We caught up with Alan to find out all about […]
English water companies warned to clean up their act following unacceptable performance reports
The Environment Agency has today released its annual performance assessments for English water companies, finding overall performance to be ‘simply unacceptable’. Serious warnings to the water companies causing damage to rivers, wildlife, beaches and bathers has been issued in the latest annual performance assessments today. In the report’s foreword, Emma Howard Boyd, EA […]
Join the Refill Revolution!
As hundreds of communities across the UK work to start freeing where they live from single-use plastic through the Plastic Free Communities movement, we are seeing a resurgence in public drinking fountains. Whether it’s bringing old fountains back into use, installing new facilities or just making use of publicly available taps, our Plastic Free […]
Plastic Free Awards launched to celebrate environmental heroes fighting plastic pollution
Marine conservation charity Surfers Against Sewage and the Iceland Foods Charitable Foundation (IFCF) have confirmed plans to host a national awards ceremony celebrating the thousands of campaigners backing their fight against plastic pollution and production. The new Plastic Free Awards are set to be held in November this year, to recognise the work of those […]