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.
by Matt Franklin | May 10, 2019 | Press Release | Major Plastic Waste Producers Must Get Consent Before Exporting their Toxic Trash to Global South Also available in Bahasa Indonesia: PBB Memutuskan untuk Mengontrol Pembuangan Sampah Plastik Global FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE MAY 10, 2019 Geneva, Switzerland — Today, 187 countries took a major step forward in curbing the plastic waste crisis by…
Trash Free Waters (TFW) is a program developed by EPA with the purpose to educate, raise awareness, and encourage trash reduction in oceans and coasts. The public participants in the program include state and municipal governments, NGOs and business. https://www.epa.gov/trash-free-waters/newsletter-flow-trash-free-waters https://www.epa.gov/trash-free-waters/archive-rapids-epa-trash-free-waters-monthly-update https://www3.epa.gov/region9/marine-debris/zerotrash.html
Video Synopsis This powerful advocacy video from the Save the Albatross Coalition makes an urgent case for California Assembly Bill 319, which would require beverage manufacturers to tether bottle caps to containers. The video combines stark statistics about plastic pollution with compelling imagery of marine wildlife suffering from plastic ingestion. Key Messages The Crisis in…
Under Construction http://www.cleanseascoalition.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=53&Itemid=60 Leslie Tamminen at leslie.tamminen@gmail.com
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…
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
