World's first city-wide plastic survey: Harnessing people power to help with plastic pollution in Portsmouth

Source: https://phys.org/news/2023-06-world-city-wide-plastic-survey-harnessing.html

Author: University of Portsmouth

A UK city has become the first in the world to use city wide surveys to track plastic waste, in an effort to tackle plastic pollution. The research, published this week in Marine Pollution Bulletin relied on the help of local people and businesses to map 'hotspots' of plastic rubbish in Portsmouth. The MAPP (Mapping Portsmouth Plastic) project is a world-first—a city-wide plastic survey, designed to help find solutions to reduce plastic waste in urban areas.