Trash Tinder

A gamified web survey collecting information to inform educational and outreach tools for marine debris.

Plastic Pirates

A European Citizen Science Campaign in which school clasess and youth groups collect plastic samples from streams and rivers and document their findings.

Beat the Microbead App

The Beat the Microbead app allows you to scan the ingredients on packaging to see if your product contains microplastics. You will immediately see if the scanned product contains microplastics […]

Micro Investigators

New Zealand-based citizen science monitoring team for microplastics. Includes database, map of samples, and additional information for connecting with school kids.

AUSMAP

Crowd-sourced repository of microplastics occurrence in Australia.

Marine Debris Tracker

Marine litter tracking database powered by citizen science crowd-sourced data using a mobile app.

FMAP

A citizen-science project that was funded in 2015 by an outreach and education grant from NOAA’s Marine Debris Program. Volunteer citizens are collecting coastal water samples, filtering them and looking […]