The government has signed into law today a ban on the sale of wet wipes that contain plastic, marking a major step forward in tackling plastic pollution that clogs up sewers and devastates our ...

Footage shows diggers starting to remove a “disgusting” bank of wet wipes that has built up along the River Thames in west London as part of a first-of-its-kind clean-up project. Plastic waste has ...

A huge 'wet wipe island' in the River Thames will soon disappear as diggers have pulled 114 tonnes of waste out of the water. Congealed rubbish equivalent to around five million wet wipes has been ...

A ban on wet wipes containing plastic fibres will be in force from Spring 2027, the government has confirmed. The policy was introduced as a private members bill in November 2021 by MP Fleur Anderson, ...

Approximately five million wet wipes have finally been removed from the infamous ‘Wet Wipe Island’ on the River Thames. The three-week project was the country’s first mass wet wipe removal project of ...

The changes, which will start to be rolled out in the UK this year, are aimed at reducing the scale of plastic pollution.

Wet wipes overtake U.K.’s River Thames ABC News’ Maggie Rulli reports from “Wet Wipe Island” where officials are removing 180 tons of congealed wet wipes that have built up along the U.K. 's famous ...

The River Thames is supposed to be the beautiful heartbeat of London. Instead, there are an estimated 400,000 pounds of wet wipes clogging up one 820-foot stretch along the riverbed.