OneSails UK partners with Surfers Against Sewage 

British sailmaker OneSails has partnered with the marine conservation and campaigning charity, Surfers Against Sewage (SAS). OneSails says this collaboration forms part of its commitment to help protect the oceans and become more sustainable. 

“As passionate, lifelong sailors who live and work by the sea we are always looking for new ways we can help protect the marine environment,” says John Parker from OneSails GBR (East) in Suffolk.

“We have followed Surfers Against Sewage’s campaigns for many years, and they were the obvious choice when it came to teaming up with a charity taking action to implement real change.” 

As a new member of Surfers Against Sewage’s Ocean Network, OneSails joins a raft of businesses supporting social change and helping to protect the UK’s coastal environment. 

Nathan Steffenoni, from OneSails GBR (south) in Hamble, adds:, “As a business, we are investing in product development and recycling initiatives to reduce the carbon footprint of our sails. Like many of our team, I am a sea swimmer, a surfer, and a sailor so this is also a personal commitment as well as a company mission.” 

Earlier this year (March 2023), OneSails UK announced a partnership with the charity Clean Sailors and its global ReSail project to recycle and re-use old sails. By inviting people to drop off old sails to its lofts near Ipswich in Suffolk and in Hamble on the south coast, OneSails says during the summer it prevented over 100 old sails going into landfill through its ongoing re-use, recycle, and re-purpose campaign. 

Main image credit: Aiste Ri.