With citizen-owned digital tools, environmental data and government knowledge can become part of the common good and starting point for change.
‘Plastic Pirates' turns pupils into researchers: by collecting plastic waste, they generate data that helps the scientific community.
Foamed bioplastics present an exciting new development in our fight against plastic waste. But are they a catch-all solution?
More and more marine litter is floating in our oceans. The Ocean Cleanup project aims to tackle the problem - but how effective is it really?
New research shows how satellites can be used to detect marine litter from space and create a map of the waste in our oceans.
Ghana's initiative to monitor and report marine plastic pollution using data generated by the public represents a milestone in citizen science.
The last version of the Ocean Cleanup's concept failed out at sea, but now a new version is cleaning up the waves.
Littering our parks, bus stops and beaches, plastic waste, one of the most serious environmental problems of our times, is quite literally everywhere. Could bioplastics provide a solution? And are they really as sustainable as we might think?
A UK app has created a special cash lottery for anyone picking up and binning litter.
