The UK's Dirty Dozen Of Top Polluters Revealed By Surfers Against Sewage Campaign Group
Plastic Bags - Cigarette Butts - Bio Media - Fishing Equipment - Plastic debris
With big polluting companies piling pressure on consumers by producing everything they can in single use plastics, cans, and marking things as being recycleable when they are not, right through to lobbying Government to water down legislation aimed at making polluters pay and clean up their environmental responsibilities; there is no set-up in the level of pollution and ecological damage being done by these companies. All in the name of profit!
Surfer Against Sewage have been campaigning for decades against pollution of our waterways and seas, and have produced another of their annual audits, in which they name the biggest polluting companies in the UK.
With companies such as McDonalds producing heavilly chemically contaminated and carconogenic 'food' in their so-called 'restaurants', they are not only contaminating our bodies, but also the wider environment through plasitcs and waste paper. Further they import potatoes which are grown using fertilisers so dangerous that US farmers dont go anywhere near their fields for a minimum of 24 hours following their crop spraying!
Despite being banned, these heavilly contaminatedpotatoes, are imported into the UK, Europe and the rest of the World.
No wonder McDonalds is listed as number 2 worst polluters, along with Coca-Cola as number one polluter!
The Surfers Against Sewage campaign group's report entitled, 'Exposing The UK's Top Polluters' provides the evidence for Parliament to tackle the ongoing crisis in the UK by passing tough and effective legislation to force companies to stop producing goods full of plastic and bio-media harmful to animals, plants and people.
Thye claim that Britain's leading household brands have done "next to nothing" to tackle the country's plastic packaging crisis, in their latest annual report backed by the largest citizen science pollution dataset ever compiled in the UK.
The report, based on evidence gathered by volunteers and community groups across the country, identifies the so-called "Dirty Dozen" — the 12 household brands and their international parent companies responsible for driving the UK's single-use packaging pollution epidemic.
Researchers found that plastic remains the most prevalent form of pollution across the UK regardless of location, with a significant proportion traced back to single-use packaging produced by a handful of major corporations.
The findings go beyond naming and shaming. Investigators allege that the Dirty Dozen have actively worked to undermine efforts to address the crisis — spreading misleading environmental claims, abandoning reduction targets, and lobbying against legislation designed to hold them accountable — all while plastic production rates have continued to soar.
The report also levels criticism at the UK Government, accusing ministers of allowing the worst offenders to "pollute without consequence" and warning that policy delays — many of them driven by industry lobbying — have caused measurable harm to oceans, wildlife and local communities.
Despite more than a decade of pledges and self-imposed targets, the data points to a clear conclusion: voluntary action by polluting brands is not working.
The report's authors are now calling on the Government to introduce binding legislation, arguing that a strong public mandate for change exists and that the time for promises has passed.
The full report from Surfers Against Sewage, can be read via the Unionsafety E-Library from where it can be downloaded in PDF format, using search word 'Surfers'.
Source: Surfers Against Sewage / Unionsafety
