Wet wipes containing plastic will be banned in England. It is part of a wider plan to improve water quality in England, where no river or waterway is considered clean. Read more here: (📸 Getty Images)
for releasing untreated sewage into rivers and seas without good reason. Figures show an average of 825 sewage spills per day into England's waterways in the last year.But environment charity River Action UK said the government had been "asleep at the wheel" for many years and had allowed rivers to "fill up with untreated human effluent and toxic agricultural pollution".
Water companies, who spend millions of pounds clearing up blockages caused by wet wipes, are in favour of a ban. "This is the third sham of a Tory water plan since the summer. There's nothing in it that tells us how, if, or when they will end the Tory sewage scandal," he added."Yet again the conservative government is taking the public for fools by re-announcing a wet wipe policy from five years ago. The government is all talk and no action," he said.