The Dirty Protest: A petition against sewage pollution that you sign with actual sewage

Every year billions of litres of untreated sewage is dumped straight into the ocean, and for years politicians have chosen to ignore the problem.

But for the first time, sewage pollution is being taken to a place where they can’t ignore it; their desks.

Sewage pollution can cause low oxygen levels suffocating fish and sea plants, making the ecosystem of our ocean vulnerable to climate change.

Sewage pollution can also contain bacteria, viruses and parasites that make people sick with gastro-intestinal symptoms, rashes, skin and eye infections, flu-like symptoms, and worse.

The Dirty Protest is an online petition that you sign on Dirtyprotest.org. Your name is then printed using a specially designed ink that features in sewage from drain pipes. The petitions are then printed and delivered to the responsible politicians across the globe.

Take action, sign your name with shit.

Sewage doesn’t care about borders. That’s why The Dirty Protest is the first international collaboration. By signing the petition, you’re not only supporting the fight in your local area – you’re also a part of global initiative to protect the ocean we share.

When you sign the petition, your printed signature will then get delivered to the responsible politician in your country once local petition requirements are reached.

With 1 million signatures The Dirty Protest will be delivered to the European Parliament and any other intergovernmental organisations we think can help make a change.

You can sign it yourself at www.dirtyprotest.org and learn more about the initiative.

The chairwoman of the European Parliament’s Water Group is the first to sign

Pernille Weiss, Member of the European Parliament and Chairwoman of the Water Group was the first person to sign the petition. Weiss made it very clear why she chose to sign…

“I signed my name in shit to stop untreated sewage from being pumped into our ocean and I need all of you to sign, so we can show every politician that this problem is too big and too important to be ignored.”