Footage shows diggers removing ‘disgusting’ island of wet wipes from Thames

Construction workers at the launch of the first mass wet wipe removal from a UK river (Ben Whitley/PA) -

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 gathered over recent years into a thick sludge along a 250-metre stretch of the river’s southern foreshore by Hammersmith Bridge.