“Planet Patrol’s platform offers an incredible opportunity to better understand the distribution and diversity of the litter in our landscape.
The data collected has the potential to identify the most appropriate strategies to mitigate plastic pollution from local to national scales.
By identifying each item of litter to type and, where possible brand, this initiative will produce one of the most comprehensive databases of litter available to us all.
Not only will this be invaluable to an increasingly environmentally aware society, but it could also inform industries of the fate of the disposable products they produce at a scale that cannot be ignored.”
Dr Tom Stanton, Lecturer and Researcher, Nottingham Trent University