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Scroll back to February 2020. It felt like we were beginning to turn the tide on plastic pollution. Business and individuals were increasingly waking up to the effects that our over-consumption of this everlasting material was having on our oceans,...

  Between 22nd April-22nd May, thousands of you joined the #ReturnToOffender campaign to challenge big brands on the volume of plastic and packaging pollution found on beaches and other wild spaces. The results have revealed that just 12 big brands...

“This little turtle has just been born but he changes the world, which means we can too!” 🐢🐢 Stories change the world and have the power to change our lives. That’s why tales like Lauren Davies’ Little Turtle Turns the...

  On World Ocean Day, the largest environmental coalition in England, Wildlife and Countryside Link, of which Surfers Against Sewage is a member, launched its Ocean Recovery Manifesto. The manifesto outlines a detailed Ocean recovery plan forming a vision to...

  Join Surfers Against Sewage and thousands of others to ask politicians to put the Ocean, climate and people at the center of the recovery to Covid-19. In our recent #GenerationSea survey, over 90% of you said you thought that...

  Today, we’ve seen heavy rainfall hit the South West resulting in a considerable number of sewage and pollution warning being issued through our Safer Seas Service. With rain also forecast throughout the UK over the next few weeks we...

The Ticking Waste Time Bomb on Brighton & Hove Beach as Lockdown Eases. Author: Stu Davies, Regional Rep for Hove The beaches in Brighton & Hove, like any popular city or resort beaches, do suffer greatly from waste left on...

Today, we’ve launched the #EndSewagePollution petition calling on the government to protect the health and well-being of the public and to help restore the rivers and Ocean. Targeted at George Eustice, the Secretary of State for the environment, we aim to...

While the global pandemic has meant we’ve had to make some big changes to how we live our lives at the moment … there’s one thing that doesn’t need to change. Reducing single-use plastic is as important now as it...