Cleanups

Plastic & waste types

What we actually find: plastic, metal, glass, tyres and hazardous waste.

Discarded plastic bottle and other litter on a sandy beach

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Beach cleanups and microplastics: what your data can show

Why a beach cleanup cannot measure microplastics, how a repeatable shoreline survey differs, and how to record cleanup results honestly and comparably.

Updated 8 October 20264 min read

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Recycling & disposal
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Elsewhere on the web

Links to reference material and organisations we don't control.

ReferencePlastic pollutionWikipedia
OfficialPlastics in Europe - briefings and dataEuropean Environment Agency
OrganisationPlastic Pollution CoalitionPlastic Pollution Coalition
VideoUN Environment Programme on YouTubeYouTube