The second year of a project generously enabled by Depeche Mode and Hublot’s Memento Mori Tour charity partnership with the Conservation Collective to tackle plastic pollution.

DEF’s portion of the funding received is being used to support one of our flagship grantees, Till the Coast is Clear, to scale up their vital work recovering plastic pollution from hard-to-reach locations on the South Devon coast.

Since the first round of funding, 20,000+ kgs of marine plastic has been reclaimed from Devon’s coastlines, with an estimated 70% stemming from commercial fishing and shipping gear. They also purchased additional kayaks made from recycled marine plastic to take bigger groups of volunters on clean-up missions, set up new remote waste collection points, hired a new team member, and equipped several local schools with beach cleaning kits.

This second tranche of funding will be used to:

• add more remote coastal plastic waste collection points for pollution cleaned up by the general public
• distribute coast clean up equipment to more local groups
• develop the Circular Adventures initiative
• recruit new volunteers across all TTCIC’s environmental initiatives
• and progress with the conversion of the vintage wooden motor cruiser, Dolphin, into a community-owned electric vessel to provide nature immersion experiences on the Kingsbridge Salcombe estuary nature reserve.

Read about year one of the funding HERE.

See mini impact update from year one HERE.