Wet wipes
Wet wipes are one of the most common litter items we find on UK beaches.
Credit: Natasha Ewins
Dr Laura Foster, Head of Clean Seas: “By removing plastic from wet wipes we can move further away from our reliance on single-use plastics. Wet wipes should be considered similarly to items like cotton bud sticks and straws which are, in the most part, avoidable."
We’ve been calling on all high street retailers to make sure all of their own brand wet wipes either meet the ‘Fine to Flush’ standard, or are labelled ‘Do Not Flush’. We want UK governments to make it a legal requirement for products labelled as flushable to pass the ‘Fine to Flush' standard and to ban single use plastic wipes.
