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  Sunday 31st October marks the first day of COP26. This is a key moment in our history. The conversations, decisions and actions taken at this climate conference will shape the future of our blue planet and of human civilisation....

Last night, following a landslide vote in the House of Lords to legally oblige water companies to take action to stop pumping sewage into the environment, the Government shifted course and announced that it would enshrine into law a duty...

  On Saturday 6 November 2021, as world leaders meet in Glasgow for the COP26 Global Climate Summit, towns and cities across the world will take to the streets demanding global climate justice. As part of the COP26 Coalition, we...

  This week the government had the opportunity with the Environment Bill to put it beyond all doubt that water companies have to act to stop pumping raw sewage into rivers and the ocean. Instead they decided to recommend their...

  Today, we were joined by Olympic Gold Medalist & ocean activist Hannah Mills to hand-in the #OceanEmergency petition to Downing Street. Almost 70,000 of you joined us in demanding the Government put the ocean at the forefront of climate...

As we enter the final stages of the Environment Bill’s passage through parliament we have one last chance to ensure the Bill helps #EndSewagePollution by placing a legal duty on water companies to end their use of CSOs. Click Here...

  Here at Surfers Against Sewage, we want to see an end to plastic pollution on UK beaches by 2030 and to do this we need to challenge industry and businesses to remove plastic from their products and also switch...

As part of our Million Mile mission, join the team at Surfers Against Sewage on Thursday 28th October, as we’ll be hosting a beach clean with surf brand Reef from 2pm until 5pm. Now autumn is well and truly here,...

[caption id="attachment_93439" align="alignnone" width="660"] Photo by Ian Lean[/caption] Our health is affected in countless ways by the environment we live in – from the quality of the air we breathe to the ocean we enjoy playing in, environmental factors can have a...