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Join Surfers Against Sewage (SAS) in voicing concerns to Cornwall Council about Marine Minerals Limited’s commercial dredging proposal for the North Cornish on a new Facebook Causes petition. Cornwall Council is the regulatory body enforcing the St Ives Bay Coast...

Surfers Against Sewage (SAS) are pleased to welcome Cornwall Council as the first local authority to support the Protect Our Waves petition. Cornwall Council recently voted unanimously* to support the Protect Our Waves petition and recognised the vital work SAS...

This week Surfers Against Sewage is launching Global Wave Wednesday, a new campaign action uniting surfers from around the globe in the call to protect UK waves from pollution, marine litter and over-development. SAS is calling on surfers, environmentalists and ocean...

Surfers Against Sewage's Protect Our Waves (POW) Petition will take centre stage at the 3rd Global Wave Conference in Mexico next week. The Global Wave Conference is a gathering of wave protection NGOs and academics from across the world, including SAS,...

We can reveal that Marine Minerals Limited (MML) has unlawfully undertaken the first significant works associated with their dredging proposal. Considering St Ives Bay is one of only 3 sites Marine Minerals Limited is  applying to dredge, they are either incompetent...

SAS, Ben Fogle and Barefoot Wine are leading the way in a campaign to keep Britain’s beaches ‘barefoot friendly’ in 2013. The national campaign, now in its sixth year, will kick off at Ben’s childhood beach of Climping in West Sussex...

Sewerage system failures in Torbay and the Isle of Wight We've been celebrating the arrival (well nearly) of spring but have this week been disappointed to receive reports of two significant sewage discharges in Torbay and on the Isle of...

Concern about marine pollution and conservation is growing amongst UK surfers, a recent online aimed at the surfing public has shown. The survey aimed to find out if those who enjoy surfing as a leisure pursuit are concerned about the...

The SAS Big Spring Beach Clean will be taking place at over 60 beaches nationwide this month to tackle the growing marine litter crisis hitting UK shores. Hundreds of volunteers will be cleaning beaches from the Orkney Isles to the...