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[caption id="attachment_52384" align="aligncenter" width="1024"] Beach Clean Effort! - #AvoidablePlastics - (C) Tim Boydell[/caption] We call upon 20,000 beach clean volunteers to capture ‘avoidable plastic’ evidence at 550 coastal and river locations nationwide. This April 7th – 15th we'll be welcoming...

Secretary of State for the Environment announces details of commitment to bring back bottle deposits to help curb ocean plastic pollution. 329,000 people signed SAS x 38 Degrees Message In A Bottle petition, the UK’s biggest petition to bring back...

Since November 2017 we’ve been working with schools across the UK to eradicate the unnecessary use of single-use plastic from their grounds while inspiring and empowering government and industry to follow suit. Plastic pollution is certainly the topic of our...

Our Be The Change Education programme is back on the road and last week the team from Surfers Against Sewage reached the North West. Six schools and over 1800 pupils took up the challenge to tackle litter in their communities....

[caption id="attachment_51639" align="alignnone" width="660"] South Fistral Beach Newquay by Paul Watts[/caption] Water Quality Campaign Victory Surfers Against Sewage are pleased to hear that the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs have designated 9 new Bathing Waters in the UK....

Georgeham and Nancledra Primary Schools achieve Plastic Free Schools status! Since late November 2017 our Plastic Free Schools programme has equipped, inspired and empowered almost 200 schools to begin work toward achieving Plastic Free Schools status. Thousands of pupils from...

A coalition of top water sports groups and marine conservation bodies today wrote to the Environment Secretary Michael Gove demanding a deposit return scheme on bottles and cans. The letter, organised by Surfers Against Sewage, calls for a consistent UK-wide...

In a week where new research warns about the increased risk to the health of seawater users, we also hear from the Secretary of State about the actions water companies must take to protect both people and the planet by...

Surfers Against Sewage are disappointed to hear that this week's response by government to the Environmental Audit Committee (EAC) will cause further delays to the implementation of a UK-wide Deposit Return Scheme (DRS). The Environmental Audit Committee has recommended that the...