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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...

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...

A consultation launched today on a new drink bottle Deposit Return Scheme shows the Government is considering the option of limiting the scheme to small bottles despite evidence that this would exclude millions of plastic bottles. Surfers Against Sewage (SAS)...

  The UK government is facing a potential court date after allegedly failing to comply with a European order over raw sewage being pumped into the sea from a North East beach. [caption id="attachment_65001" align="aligncenter" width="660"] One of the sources...

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...

A Cornish MP has revealed that legislation which could better protect beaches and rivers across the UK from pollution is ‘highly likely’ to be incorporated into the UK government’s new Environment Bill. Scott Mann, MP for North Cornwall, initially proposed...

We want to Mass Unwrap the UK! Are you in? Mass Unwrap is an awesome, fun and high impact action that shows how much plastic is used by supermarkets and puts pressure on them from community level, to change. They are...

Surfers Against Sewage calls for action from mountain summits to city streets, from riverbanks to coastlines, to help stop plastic polluting our ocean The Big Spring Beach Clean is the UK’s biggest beach clean event, mobilising over 30,000 authentic community...

We are stoked to announce that the Isle of Arran has become the first community in Scotland to achieve Surfers Against Sewage Plastic Free Communities status, in recognition of the island’s work to start reducing the impact of single-use plastic...