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Join us once again to tackle and monitor the marine litter crisis. Together with World Animal Protection, Vita Coco and Protect Direct we are calling for 5,000 UK beach lovers to join us for the Big Spring Beach Clean at 150 of...

Surfers Against Sewage launches new marine litter monitoring programme to collect vital data for the Marine Strategy Framework Directive. We have launched a new Marine Litter Monitoring and Evaluation Programme and we are inviting you to become citizen scientists, playing...

The Government consultation for the Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD) is now open, which will help identify specific new measures to help tackle the marine litter crisis. A United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) report estimates that 8 million individual items...

We are proudly launching our biggest Big Spring Beach Clean ever to protect the UK's beaches, waves and wildlife from the rising tide of marine litter, in association with Vita Coco Coconut Water, World Animal Protection and Protec Direct. We are calling for community...

Our Unidentified Floating Objects (UFO) campaign aims to identify, trace and eliminate persistent items of marine litter found on UK beaches. We aim to identify regularly occurring, unidentified marine litter items through research, social networks and other consultation to then tackle those responsible...

We’re delighted to announce that Saltrock now charges 5p for every carrier bag given out in all stores, and every penny collected is donated directly to Surfers Against Sewage. Hugo Tagholm SAS chief Executive says: “SAS is delighted to be...

As part of our Protect Our Waves campaign, Artist & Art Director Owen Tozer, generously donated his time and talent to designing this new, special edition range to help us continue to bring this powerful message home. Hailing from the...

This video is an overview of the scientific research paper "Plastic pollution in the world's oceans: More than 5 trillion plastic pieces weighing over 250,000 tonnes afloat at sea," published at the end of 2014 by our friends the 5...

Surfers Against Sewage’s 25th anniversary year has begun as frenetically as 2014 ended, with a myriad of exciting environmental campaigns, plans, partnerships and events rapidly being confirmed for the year ahead. Such an auspicious year gives the charity a wonderful...