LONDON -- Heavy machinery is tearing through what locals are calling “wet wipe island,” an 820-foot shoreline of flushed bathroom debris that has transformed a stretch of London’s Thames River into an ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...