MORE than 30,000 plastic bottle tops have been collected from the city’s beach and seafront in just eight months.

Stacked together, the tops would reach 449 metres, soaring to two and a half times the height of the i360.

The bottle tops have been saved from possibly entering the sea and used to create a wave art installation beside the Volks Railway.

Councillor Anne Pissaridou, chairwoman of the council’s environment, transport and sustainability committee, said: “People would rightly be shocked and horrified if someone pushed a column of plastic bottles tops two and a half times the height of the i360 on to the beach and into the sea.

“But every time someone leaves a bottle top on the beach or seafront they are adding to that massive column and endangering our sea life.”