Shining a light (in a very grey summer)
Ah, Sunshine, old friend. Where the **** have you been?!
The season hasn’t been the same without you but fear not, the grey (and the mizzle) hasn’t dampened our Ocean Activism one bit.
Earlier this month we launched a report highlighting the #DirtyDozen companies responsible for 2/3rds of the UK’s plastic and packaging pollution 😡
Our tap sculpture on Watergate Bay helped us hit the headlines, land our punches, and raise the pressure on the plastic polluters.
For the first year ever, water companies will have to make real-time data on sewage discharges available at bathing sites all year round 💩❌
This SAS campaign win means that the Safer Seas & Rivers Service will help keep you safe, even after the official bathing season closes!
Our Plastic Free Communities have been harnessing the power of citizen science in a partnership with National Geographic and the University of Plymouth 👊
Ocean Activists have been getting out and about to help understand the impact of the pandemic on the natural world. You can join in too.
Across this somewhat sunless summer, Ocean Activists have continued their big fundraising efforts for SAS 🙌🏽
Like the Sefton Lifeguards, who went above and beyond in their training to cover the distance from Lands End to John O’Groats, all to fundraise for SAS & the RNLI. Epic.
Looking forward
As summer ends, we’re stoked that Plastic Free Schools is kicking off bigger and better than ever. If you’re a pupil, parent, teacher or carer you can help your local school to sign up.
We’re partnering with the Ocean Film Festival World Tour which is touring across the UK from September to November. Grab a ticket while you can – we receive a percentage of every ticket sold, helping fund our Ocean Activism.
Three Ocean Links
🌊 1. Watch: Hugo’s debate on plastic pollution live on Good Morning Britain
🌊 2. Read: Our response to the latest IPCC report on climate change
🌊 3. Act: Join SAS’s membership and receive an Ocean Activist Pack and regular editions of Pipeline magazine
👇🏿 before you go, have a browse of our shop where you can buy epic SAS merch helping you promote our cause while funding our Ocean Activism 👇🏿
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