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.
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…
https://www.unep.org/cep/trash-free-waters-initiative-caribbean
We face many complex challenges when it comes to a clean and healthy ocean, but one problem is simple to understand: Trash. People know that trash in the water: compromises the health of humans, wildlife and the livelihoods that depend on a healthy ocean; threatens tourism and recreation, and the critical dollars they add to…
Ann R. Thryft, Senior Technical Editor, Design News, 4/22/2016 The amount of plastic in the ocean just keeps growing. If things don’t change, by 2025 the oceans will contain one metric ton of plastic for every three metric tons of fish. By 2050 plastic will outweigh fish entirely. That’s the conclusion of a report by…
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…
Sometimes the best way to talk about plastic pollution is to make people laugh first. The Northern California Recycling Association’s Fractured Fairytales puts a waste-wise spin on familiar stories, using humor to get at serious questions about what we throw away and why. The Save The Albatross Coalition is pleased to share the 2026 edition…
