Great British Beach Clean 2024: The results
The results for this year's Great British Beach Clean are in! Find out how much litter our brilliant volunteers collected over the 10-day event.
Thanks to the hard work of volunteers all across the UK and Channel Islands, this year's Great British Beach Clean was a smashing success!
We were delighted to see even more of you join us at the beach this year, with 5,845 volunteers taking part in 476 events to help clean up and survey our coastline.
A whopping 249,823 litter items were collected, weighing 6,048kg and filling 1,675 bags! By removing this litter, our volunteers helped prevent it from entering our ocean and harming our marine life.
Source to Sea results
Those who couldn't make it to the beach still played their part, with 104 volunteers taking part in Source to Sea inland litter picks. They collected 647 items, removing 84kgs of litter from the natural environment and stopping it from entering our waterways.
Credit: Billy Barraclough
Thanks to our sponsor
This year's Great British Beach Clean was supported by Cully & Sully Soup, who sponsored the event. They joined us at the launch of our beach clean campaign and kept volunteers fuelled with tasty soup!
Credit: Sam Teale Productions
What happens next?
Our Beachwatch team is busy analysing all of the litter survey data submitted by volunteers during this year's Great British Beach Clean. We'll be including the full results in the 2024 State of our Beaches report, which will be released in March next year.
In the meantime, you can discover the most prevalent litter types across the UK and Channel Islands, what this tells us, and what we're doing about it, in this year's report.
