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Thanks to our incredible supporters we have had another great year in 2016. It has seen us develop our network of regional environmental volunteers, deliver more beach cleans than ever before, develop and distribute our beach clean box to coastal...

SAS CEO Hugo Tagholm has written to his MP calling for a Deposit Return System, have you? Follow the link to download our helpful guide to writing an effective letter to your MP. https://www.sas.org.uk/news/campaigns/send-a-message-in-a-bottle-to-parliament/ Sign the petition for a deposit...

As part of the Message In a Bottle campaign, Surfers Against Sewage is urging the public to write to their MPs calling on them to support a deposit return system (DRS) in the UK. Each day the UK uses a...

Thousands of UK Beach Lovers Unite to Tackle Plastic Pollution This Autumn saw over 8000 people join us at 285 beach cleans across the UK for our biggest Autumn Beach Clean ever. From local schools, community groups and businesses to young families,...

Surfers Against Sewage, together with hundreds of environmental organisations and water industry bodies from 19 countries have signed the statement below, aimed at reducing sewage discharges and toilet blockages and the associated human and environmental impacts from this pollution.  The organisations signing...

Surfers Against Sewage welcomes the latest water quality results for beaches around the UK. The dry summer coupled with infrastructure investment driven by the EU Urban Waste Water Treatment & Bathing Water Directive means that 2016 has seen widespread ‘Excellent' bathing...

Autumn Beach Clean Continues Record-Breaking Year for SAS Beach Cleans The week of the 24th - 30th of October saw our biggest Autumn Beach Clean ever with over 270 beach cleans taking place across the UK, from the Channel Islands...

Lizzie Carr (aka Lizzie Outside), has recently become the first person to Stand Up Paddleboard the length of England's connected waterways. In doing so she also wanted to highlight the problem with plastic impacting our inland waterways, as well as...

We're calling on YOU our incredible supporters to don your trusty beach clean gloves and 'lead out' thousands of volunteers to help us rid our coastline of marine litter this October. Thanks to support from the The Crown Estate and Greggs, we have recruited...