The mass excavation, led and co-ordinated by the Port of London Authority in collaboration with Thames Water, will see the ...

The Port of London Authority (PLA) has said it will remove about 180 tonnes of congealed wet wipes – the equivalent to the ...

The underwater 'island', which is the size of two tennis courts and weighs the same as two double decker buses, is said to have harmed the wildlife and ecology of the river.

Some 11 billion wet wipes are used every year in the UK. The mass found in west London is the size of two tennis courts ...

In October 2023, Defra held a public consultation on proposals to ban plastic wet wipes across the UK and received 95 per cent of respondents in favour. The plan to then enforce the ban was then ...

"We wanted to create an improved way to access wet wipes for increased sanitation when using the bathroom," said an inventor, ...

Led and co-ordinated by the Port of London Authority (PLA) with collaboration from Thames Water, the first-of-its-kind ...

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 ...

Wet wipes containing plastic will be banned in England under plans to tackle water pollution, environment minister Therese Coffey has told BBC News. The ban on plastic-based wipes should come into ...

As earthquakes go, this was a monster. At 8.8 on the magnitude scale, it's up there with the most powerful ever recorded. The friction from shifting plates fuels volcanoes but is also notorious for ...