Clean-Up Totals

The 1000 Tyres project team is removing polluting materials from Plymouth Sound and its estuaries, recovering tyres, plastics, and other rubbish from the foreshore and underwater.

Recovery Operations

Date	Location	Organisations	Material Recovered	Tyre Count	Gallery
2024-01-27	Millbay / Stonehouse	1000 Tyres	Recovered ~519kg, picked up 6 tyres, road cones, bike, scooter, 2 chairs, fibreglass, plastic tubing, nylon rope.	373
2024-01-14	Richmond Walk	1000 Tyres / Clean Our Patch	Recovered ~450kg, picked up 12 tyres found by Clean Our Patch at Richmond Walk.	367
2023-10-07	Ham Brook, Weston Mill, Devonport	1000 Tyres / Clean Our Patch	Recovered ~1730kg, 2 tractor tyres, 43 car tyres, 5 road cones and two traffic barriers, scrap metal, rubbish, 1 straitjacket	355
2023-10-07	Plymouth Waterfront	1000 Tyres	Recovered ~540kg, 15 tyres, 3 road cones, shopping trolley, rubbish, fishing line. Supported by PSBSAC.	314
2023-09-23	Tory Brook, Plympton	1000 Tyres / Clean Our Patch	Recovered ~450kg, recovered 12 tyres picked up by Clean Our Patch from the Tory Brook.	299
2023-09-02	Hooe Lake Point	1000 Tyres	Recovered ~950kg, 22 tyres, 5 bike tyres, 1 bike, 2 traffic cones, shopping trolley, crab pot, rope, rubber mats, chain, 75kg trash, kitchen sink	287
2023-08-26	Plymouth Waterfront	1000 Tyres	Recovered angling gear from underwater along the harbour walls.	265
2023-08-19	Oreston Foreshore	1000 Tyres	Recovered 900kg, 8 car tyres, 3 truck tyres, 2 bike tyres	265
2023-04-23	Stonehouse Beach	1000 Tyres	Recovered rubber, plastic, scrap metal plus 2 tyres, 80kg	252
2022-10-13	River Tamar	CDT	Recovered 2 tyres, 60kg	250
2022-05-04	Mutton Cove / Mount Batten Pier	1000 Tyres / CDT (Contractor)	Recovered 80 bike tyres, 7 lorry tyres, 54 car tyres, total of 3200kg. Funded by Interreg / PPP.	248
2021-10-09	Stonehouse Beach	1000 Tyres	Recovered scrap metal, plastic, rubber, 3 tyres, 100kg	10
2021-09-26	Jennycliff Bay	1000 Tyres / PSBSAC	A team from Plymouth Sound Divers recovered 49 tyres from Jennycliff Bay, ~1500kg	59
2021-08-27	Cawsand Bay	1000 Tyres / Ross Kemp	Recovered 2 tyres, 60kg	7
2021-04-25	Pomphlett Creek	1000 Tyres	Recovered road cones, shopping trolleys, plastic, rubber, 5 tyres 200kg	6
2020-11-06	Jennycliff Bay	1000 Tyres	Recovered one tyre, 30kg	1

• COP - Clean Our Patch
• CDT - Commercial Diver Training Ltd.
• PPP - Preventing Plastic Pollution Project
• PSBSAC - Plymouth Sound Branch of the British Sub-Aqua Club

To find out more about how we are cleaning up Plymouth Sound and its estuaries .

Last updated 02 Nov 2023