Authorities are resorting to desperate measures to remove Wet Wipe Island near Hammersmith Bridge. It’s fallen to the Port of London Authority, which once ran London’s docks, to remove the equivalent of 15 double decker buses of waste from the Thames.
So how did the capital’s river get so degraded, when the Seine in Paris is just about clean enough to host Olympic swimming events, and a thousand Parisians a day will swim in it this summer? The UK government is dragging its feet on banning wet wipes containing plastic.
