Surfers Against Sewage Archive

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Sewage is a Guernsey today issue
Clean water campaigners, Surfers Against Sewage (SAS) are renewing calls for a full sewage treatment policy to be agreed by Deputies at this week’s States of Guernsey meeting

Stop Climate Chaos' Climate Change Victory
In early October SAS lobbied all of the UK’s MPs, urgently calling on their support for a strong Climate Change Law.

Future water quality results threatened by climate change, say surfers
Almost a 1/3rd (32.3%) of designated beaches in England and Wales have failed to meet the UK’s guideline standard for water quality during the 2008 bathing season

SAS TV, Switch On, Tune In And Pass It Around
Today sees SAS TV goes live with a whole host of new Surfers Against Sewage (SAS) films available on the SAS website

Return to offender
Cornish based artist Georgina Maxwell is becoming increasingly well known for her work with marine litter as an art form, making the ugly litter look interesting and even beautiful.

SAS welcomes Hugo Tagholm as Executive Director
Surfers Against Sewage (SAS) say goodbye to Campaigns Director Rich Hardy this week

Litter-pick completed at Porthtowan
Clean water campaigners from Surfers Against Sewage (SAS) took their green postbox onto the beach at Porthtowan as part of the Return To Offender campaign and were joined by more than 50 volunteers

Cornish create surfboard art for SAS
There’s only a month to go now until the unique SAS surfboard art collection Drawing Boards goes under the hammer at Bonhams

SAS Call on Volunteers To Carry On The Summer's Successful Work
Surfers Against Sewage (SAS) campaigners are calling for volunteers to help continue the successful streak in SAS’s marine litter campaign this year.

SAS celebrate retailers moves to stem tide of cotton bud sticks
Six major retailers have agreed to implement new labelling on cotton bud packaging following persuasive action by SAS and MCS

SAS litter pick completed at Porthcawl
Surfers Against Sewage (SAS) and Barefoot Wine have completed a very successful beach clean-up at Porthcawl this week, removing over 136kg’s of waste from the beach with the help of over 40 people. This was day 1 of a week long national ‘Barefoot Friendly’ beach litter tour.

SAS makes beaches barefoot friendly
Surfers Against Sewage (SAS) have teamed up with Barefoot wine to launch a nationwide beach clean-up tour this summer. The week-long anti beach litter tour will encourage people to get down to their local beach and do their bit to make it clean and safe for all to enjoy.

International Surfing Day
It’s International Surfing Day on Friday 20th June and SAS will be kicking things off with a kid’s environmental education day at the Gold Coast Ocean Festival in Croyde, North Devon

SAS Grass Routes tour comes to an end in Portrush
Surfers Against Sewage (SAS) campaigners have finished another year on the Grassroots Tour

Surfing legends celebrate Tintagel sewage victory
Surfers Against Sewage (SAS) campaigners have today welcomed Hilary Benn, Secretary Of State for the Environment decision to refuse South West Water permission to carry on dumping raw sewage at Tintagel and Bossiney

Surfers Celebrate After Saltburn and Tynemouth Beaches Saved From Sewage Treatment Winter Turn-Off's
SAS campaigners are today delighted that Northumbrian Water’s application to turn off Ultra-Violet disinfection sewage treatment from October to April at Marske-by-the-Sea has been rejected by the Environment Agency (EA)

Over half of Guernsey's election candidates want sewage treatment improvements
55% of Guernsey's election candidates believe the current system of dumping the island's raw sewage at sea each day to be unsatisfactory and support raising the level of sewage treatment applied.

SAS go 'turdabout' in Guernsey
It's election day in Guernsey and SAS are urging the electorate to vote for those candidates that support a move away from the raw sewage 'pump and dump' philosophy currently used on the island.

SAS and the Grassroutes Tour
Surfers Against Sewage (SAS) campaigners take to the road next month for a western seaboard leg of The Grassroots Tour.

Forth Wars success
Good news and a campaign victory from Scotland