Planet Patrol | Non profit tackling single-use materials & litter

We are calling on the Rt Hon Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, Thérèse Coffey, to reject plans to amend the legislation that requires 75% of English rivers to achieve ‘good’ status by 2027.

Sign the petition

Read the 2021 litter report

Most polluting types and brands of litter revealed, and urgent recommendations to industry and the government

READ

Download our free litter tracking App

Download

Explore the litter map

Nearly half a million pieces of litter recorded across 113 countries

Go to map

Read our blog

Explore our environmental blog, including tips for sustainable living, inspiration from our Planet Heroes and much more.

Go to blog

JOIN OUR NEWSLETTER

JOIN

Water Quality is
in crisis in the UK

Our freshwater environments are being destroyed by an avalanche of pollutants and we are urgently warning the Government to take transformative action to reverse the destruction before it is too late.

Not a single river in the UK is currently in an overall state of ‘good’ chemical health and only 16% achieve good ecological health – a figure that has remained unchanged since 2016.

Join our global movement. Our mission is simple: clean up our planet.

How do we do this?

Planet Patrol combines activities, like paddle boarding, yoga, running, fitness, with litter picking and data collection.
Our free app helps volunteers gather photographic evidence of brands, types and locations of litter polluting nature globally.

How does the database help?

Logs what’s thrown away and where to help develop targeted solutions
Helps identify the polluters to hold accountable
Shape government policies to eliminate single use materials

What we do

We clean up

We run clean ups with a difference. At every Planet Patrol clean up you collect valuable data on litter and can try new activities - from paddleboarding, to parkour, canoeing and yoga.

Join a clean up

We research

We’re building global evidence through our litter tracking app. Our scientific partners then analyse the data you collect to find solutions to the issue.

Find out more

We educate

We work with young people and uni students, helping them to be the change makers. From providing educational resources to volunteering opportunities, everyone can help create the future they believe in.

Find out more

Business pledge

We provide companies with free, simple and cost-effective checklists to eliminate single use products.

Take the pledge

Corporate opportunites

Corporate opportunities

We collaborate with organisations both big and small to make positive environmental and social change happen at scale. Use your business to make a real difference!

Find out more

With your help

Planet Patrol depends on people power.

Our action together in numbers:

Countries

Litter examples uploaded

Ton bags of litter collected

Support Planet Patrol with a donation

Every person can help make a difference today. Regular giving not only helps keep the planet clean, it enables Planet Patrol to accelerate change and develop long term solutions for the planet’s future.

Cookie	Duration	Description
__stripe_mid	1 year	Stripe sets this cookie cookie to process payments.
__stripe_sid	30 minutes	Stripe sets this cookie cookie to process payments.
_GRECAPTCHA	5 months 27 days	This cookie is set by the Google recaptcha service to identify bots to protect the website against malicious spam attacks.
cookielawinfo-checkbox-advertisement	1 year	Set by the GDPR Cookie Consent plugin, this cookie is used to record the user consent for the cookies in the "Advertisement" category .
cookielawinfo-checkbox-analytics	11 months	This cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Analytics".
cookielawinfo-checkbox-functional	11 months	The cookie is set by GDPR cookie consent to record the user consent for the cookies in the category "Functional".
cookielawinfo-checkbox-necessary	11 months	This cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. The cookies is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Necessary".
cookielawinfo-checkbox-others	11 months	This cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Other.
cookielawinfo-checkbox-performance	11 months	This cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Performance".
CookieLawInfoConsent	1 year	Records the default button state of the corresponding category & the status of CCPA. It works only in coordination with the primary cookie.
elementor	never	This cookie is used by the website's WordPress theme. It allows the website owner to implement or change the website's content in real-time.
viewed_cookie_policy	11 months	The cookie is set by the GDPR Cookie Consent plugin and is used to store whether or not user has consented to the use of cookies. It does not store any personal data.

Cookie	Duration	Description
_ga	2 years	The _ga cookie, installed by Google Analytics, calculates visitor, session and campaign data and also keeps track of site usage for the site's analytics report. The cookie stores information anonymously and assigns a randomly generated number to recognize unique visitors.
_ga_BF7SL2GRMW	2 years	This cookie is installed by Google Analytics.
_gat_gtag_UA_93990942_1	1 minute	Set by Google to distinguish users.
_gid	1 day	Installed by Google Analytics, _gid cookie stores information on how visitors use a website, while also creating an analytics report of the website's performance. Some of the data that are collected include the number of visitors, their source, and the pages they visit anonymously.
CONSENT	2 years	YouTube sets this cookie via embedded youtube-videos and registers anonymous statistical data.
mo_has_visited	11 years	This cookie is used for setting an unique ID for the visitor which helps to get the accurate number of specific visitor on the website.
mo_is_new	session	This cookie is used for counting the new visitors to the website by assigning a unique visitor ID.
mo_page_views_counter	session	This cookie is used for counting the new visitors to the website by assigning a unique visitor ID.

Cookie	Duration	Description
VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE	5 months 27 days	A cookie set by YouTube to measure bandwidth that determines whether the user gets the new or old player interface.
YSC	session	YSC cookie is set by Youtube and is used to track the views of embedded videos on Youtube pages.
yt-remote-connected-devices	never	YouTube sets this cookie to store the video preferences of the user using embedded YouTube video.
yt-remote-device-id	never	YouTube sets this cookie to store the video preferences of the user using embedded YouTube video.

Water Quality is
in crisis in the UK