Surfers Against Sewage is a leading not-for-profit organisation that campaigns for clean, safe recreational water.

Surfers Against Sewage (SAS) has once again teamed up with Barefoot wine for their nationwide beach clean-up tour this summer. The SAS team will visit 6 beaches around the UK and everyone’s welcome to help.

Whether you’re a part of the local community or you just fancy rolling up your sleeves and getting involved, SAS and Barefoot need your help make our British beaches ‘Barefoot Friendly’.

Although this cleanup in taking place at present, if you cannot help this year, put it on the calendar as a MUST DO next year. SAS Littertour

A great effort by the Surfers for Sewage group.

Despite the torrential rain, they had over 25 volunteers turn up at Fistral beach for the first stage of their national beach clean tour. Their volunteers managed to remove over 200kg of rubbish from the beach, which was a fantastic result. From cigarette butts to shopping trollies, you name it, they found it and removed it.

Next year consider joining the Facebook : Surfers against Sewage

SAS Littletour

Marine Litter Facts

100,000 marine mammals and sea turtles die every year from ingestion and/or entanglement with marine litter.

A plastic bottle can take over 450 years to degrade.

Over 50% of all marine litter is plastic

15% of marine litter is on the beach, 15% on the surface of the sea and the remaining 70% on the seabed just waiting for a big storm to bring onto our beaches.

It is estimated that 2 billion sanitary items are flushed down the toilet every year in the UK.

Studies show there are over 2000 items of litter for every 1km of UK coastline, that’s 1 bit of litter for every 50cm of beach surveyed!

Over 35% of all the marine litter on the beach is left by beach users!

Over 170 different marine species have been found with plastics in their stomachs.

Estimates for cleaning up beaches around the UK range between £14 million and £157 million annually