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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
