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TACKLING 'AVOIDABLE PLASTICS' FROM SOURCE TO SEA In the last decade, the Big Spring Beach Clean has grown into one of the biggest gatherings of environmental volunteers in the world, visiting over 1,200 beaches and removing millions of pieces of...

JOIN OUR TEAM! We're stoked to have been able to create this role and can't wait to hear from potential new team-mates HOW TO APPLY TO BE AN SAS SEASONAL PROJECT OFFICER (SPO): For full details please SAS Seasonal Project Officer...

SAS call on MPs to create Plastic Free Parliament An investigation by SAS has uncovered that over 2 million avoidable single-use plastic items were purchased by the House of Commons and House of Lords in 2017. Plastic straws and stirrers,...

Plastic Free Aberporth and Plastic Free Tynemouth have both been awarded Plastic Free Coastlines Status! Aberporth becomes the first Community in Wales to achieve the status while Tynemouth stakes its claim as the first in the North East of England....

SANTA CRUZ TO WELCOME GLOBAL WAVE CONFERENCE MARCH 4 - 7, 2018 Save The Waves Coalition, Surfers Against Sewage and the Surfrider Foundation are pleased to announce the 5th Global Wave Conference in Santa Cruz, March 4 - 7, 2018....

Regular surfers and bodyboarders are three times more likely to have antibiotic resistant E. coli in their guts than non-surfers, the Beach Bums study has revealed. Surfers Against Sewage assisted in research conducted by the University of Exeter, to recruit...

The Prime Minister must take bold and decisive steps to break industry and societal addiction to single-use plastics. Outlawing non-recyclable plastics and making industry take full responsibility for their plastic waste is essential to this. The extension of the plastic...

Calling all coastal schools and communities - Apply NOW for one of our new OCEAN PLASTIC EMERGENCY KITS! As storms batter our coastlines this January, we’re proud to present our new SCHOOLS Beach Clean Boxes & #MiniBeachClean Bins, created thanks...

SAS welcome a new Environmental Audit Committee report which addresses potential solutions to the 2.5 billion coffee cups that are thrown away in the UK every year.