An island of wet wipes has changed the course of the Thames.

The course of the Thames has changed slightly due to an artificial island made up of used wet wipes. It is the size of two tennis courts and in places reaches a meter thick. The UK authorities have repeatedly urged residents to give up wet wipes and even wanted to ban them. People wash this hygiene product down the drain, but it does not dissolve there and eventually accumulates in the Thames. Ecologists say that wet wipes harm not only the river itself, but the entire aquatic ecosystem, because they contain a lot of plastic. Wet wipes make up 90% of the solid fat deposits found in sewers.