Litterati: Cleaning our planet one piece at a time.
A global community identifying, mapping and collecting the world’s litter. This digital landfill is accomplished by individuals posting photos on Instagram.
The site offers a free, five‑lesson classroom curriculum titled Winged Ambassadors: Ocean Literacy Through the Eyes of Albatross, developed in partnership with NOAA, Oikonos, and other agencies. Aimed primarily at grades 6–8 (with extensions for 9–12), the lessons use real albatross migration data, artist-scientist works, and National Geographic bolus (regurgitated food mass) imagery to explore…
In 2016, Japan was demonstrating a remarkably systematic approach to plastic bottle cap recycling that would prove influential for global “connect the cap” advocacy efforts. This image captures Japan’s sophisticated waste separation culture, where citizens routinely separate plastic bottle caps from their containers for specialized recycling processing. This practice highlighted both the environmental benefits and…
500 million straws are used and discarded every day in the US alone. That’s 175 billion a year filtering into landfills and littering the oceans. Join a global movement to eliminate plastic drinking straws from our landfills, our streams, our oceans, and our beaches! The Last Plastic Straw strives to educate the public about the absurdity of…
Most Table Salt Is Probably Full of Plastic 550 and 681 microplastic particles per kilogram of table salt, Richard Macauley, The Atlantic, 10/2015 World’s Oceans Clogged by Millions of Tons of Plastic Trash “In short, you name it and it is probably somewhere in the marine environment”, Will Dunham, Reuters – 2/2105 Global Impact Of…
For years, China accepted enormous amounts of plastic waste from wealthy countries — but in 2018 it imposed a ban. Now other Southeast Asian countries like Malaysia are being flooded with plastic waste. Source: CNN
Algalita is a pioneering environmental nonprofit that’s been at the forefront of the fight against plastic pollution for nearly three decades. They were the first to uncover and publicize the massive accumulation of plastic in the Pacific Ocean—what’s now widely called the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. Since that discovery, they’ve focused on reshaping how the…
