News and blogs

  Judges have now been confirmed for the anticipated Plastic Free Awards – among them, the likes of much-loved award-winning presenter Ben Fogle and multi-Gold medal Olympian Helen Glover. Hosted by marine conservation charity Surfers Against Sewage (SAS), the Plastic...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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....

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...

  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...

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...