A 'wet wipe island' the size of two tennis courts has formed in the Thames, causing the river as it flows through London to change course, according to The Times of London.
Ministers have asked people to stop using wet wipes, and the government is considering banning those that contain plastic.Fleur Anderson, a Labour MP, warned that when flushed down the drains, wet wipes don't disintegrate and instead end up in the Thames, England's second-longest river.
"There's an island the size of two tennis courts, and I've been and stood on it – it's near Hammersmith Bridge in the Thames, and it's a meter deep or more in places of just wet wipes. It's actually changed the course of the Thames," Anderson during a session of questions on the environment, food, and rural affairs in the Commons, perVolunteers work to clear rubbish from banks of the River Thames, near Hammersmith Bridge.
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