News and blogs

Surfers Against Sewage welcome the news the Scottish Government have today commissioned a design review for Deposit Return Systems (DRS)

  Our annual raffle is back for 2017 aiming to raise £20,000 to help protect our oceans and beaches from pollution and marine litter! The top prize for 2017 is a massive £2,000 to spend online with surf forecasters Magicseaweed! There...

World Oceans Day saw us proudly launch our brand new, immersive education programme that will support a new generation of 'Ocean Guardians' This summer we’ll be welcoming thousands of students to the greatest classroom on earth as we, in collaboration with...

Leave Only Footprints - that is the message we will be spreading during our 10th year of collaboration with Barefoot Wine and the return of the Barefoot Wine Beach Rescue Project. 84 beaches have already been visited and cleaned by this...

The 2017 Bathing Season begins today, while the weather may suggest otherwise, the bathing season marks the start of the warmest time of year and the best time to get in the sea! It is the time of year we...

This year’s surprise general election will fall on World Oceans Day. We have written to the political parties’ manifesto teams, on behalf of our supporters, calling on them to include a deposit return system. The manifestos will be announced in...

This April we, alongside Ecover, made beach clean history! When almost 17,000 people joined us at over 470 beaches and river banks across the UK to remove a massive 55 TONNES of ocean plastic pollution and recycle 17,000* single-use plastic bottles as...

Surfers Against Sewage campaigning efforts bring plastic bottle deposits a step closer. The Government has just published the long-awaited National Litter Strategy for England and we welcome the news that deposit return systems will be seriously assessed as a measure...

We were delighted to be joined by Environment Minister Thérèse Coffey, as she mucked in to help local SAS volunteers to clean up Devon's beaches from plastic and litter as part of our Big Spring Beach Clean, which is taking place...