http://www.sas.org.uk/news/campaigns/sas-launches-crucial-new-report-highlighting-solutions-to-the-marine-litter-crisis/

16 OCTOBER 2014

SAS Launches Crucial New Report Highlighting Solutions To The Marine
Litter Crisis

by Hugo Tagholm

Surfers Against Sewage campaigners call for urgent and innovative new
measures to rid the UK coastline of marine litter. The Marine Litter
Report sounds the alarm for the UK?s trashed tidelines, highlighting the
environmental impacts on marine ecosystems and wildlife, and the
unaffordable costs to industries including fisheries and tourism.

Surfers Against Sewage has launched an crucial new environmental report
calling for a 50% reduction in UK beach litter by 2020. The Marine
Litter Report, launched this week at SAS?s inaugural Protect Our Waves
All Party Parliamentary Group, highlights the scale of the marine litter
crisis and suggests radical new measures to stem the flow of litter to
our oceans, waves and beaches. The report calls for cohesive and
effective anti-marine litter measures from all sections of society
including community action, increased company responsibility and new
government legislation.

Hugo Tagholm, SAS Chief Executive says: ?Marine litter is one of the
biggest threats to the health of our precious marine environment and
it?s vital that we ramp up our collective actions to combat the crisis.
Surfers Against Sewage?s Marine Litter Report maps out radical, yet
tried and tested, new measures that can deliver a cleaner, greener
coastline by 2020. Cutting off the flow of marine litter at source is
critical to our vision to stop plastic and other debris from polluting
our beaches.?

http://www.sas.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/SAS-Marine-Litter-Report-Med.pdf