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Fighting Marine Plastic Pollution Through Community Engagement

February 1, 2024

The Path Towards Circularity in the Citarum River

November 17, 2023

Marea Verde & Wanda Díaz: Elevating Awareness and Action Against Plastic Pollution

October 19, 2023

SPLASH Case Study: The Importance of Community Involvement in Environmental Projects

September 20, 2023

Cleaning Up Kingston Harbour

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A Three-Year Plastic Rollercoaster

Is Capturing Plastics in Rivers a Wasted Effort?

January 13, 2023

1,000,000 Kilograms

December 7, 2022

Giving Back

Four men in blue pants, long sleeve blue shirts, and blue hats weild bamboo poles with nets on the end. Three stand atop a small blue boat, another atop a metal trash trap floating next to the boat in a canal. The trap is full of floating garbage, and the men smile as they scoop the trash from the trap and put it in the boat. Behind them, a bridge spans the canal.

September 1, 2022

What’s in the Canals?

In the distance, two high-rise condominium buildings emerge from behind a dense canopy of trees. In the foreground, a muddy river channel is lined with plastic and other debris.

Plastic and River Health Research in the Juan Diaz River Watershed

A large group of volunteers, roughly 50 people, gather in two lines on the beach for a photo. They have just completed a beach clean up, and are standing around the many large garbage bags filled with the waste they cleaned up.

Three Gully Sites Now Operational and Managed by Jamaica Crews

A man with short black hair in black jeans, a white t-shirt, and a blue denim jacket wears a backpack an walks towards the camera on a cement pier. Behind him, small fishing boats loaded with nets and traps float on aqua blue water with big white clouds dotting a blue sky.

Using Visual Storytelling to Fight for a Trash Free Sea

A wide, peaceful river meanders through the middle of the frame. Dense green vegetation covers the riverbanks up to the waterline. In the distance, low clouds and mist hang over hills.

Growing a Handicraft Industry by Ridding Rivers of Plastic Pollution

Panoramic view of a brown, muddy river and the river bank. The river is flowing from the upper left of the image, to the middle, and turning back out of view on the lower left. A yellow and black floating boom crosses the river at the bend, and on the right side of the river, the boom leads to a concrete structure with a flat area at which trash is collected from the river. In the back, there are three structures in the distance. In the front right, a white shed with two windows.

Seeing the Portoviejo River through Computer Vision and Object Recognition

In the foreground, a muddy riverbank. 5 volunteers wearing green are in the river removing trash. The river flows through the photo from left to right. An island of garbage is formed in the middle of the river. Across the river, the river bank is sloped and covered in grass, with tropical trees growing around a small wooden house.

From Trash to Cash – a Sustainable Affair?

8 members of the WILDCOAST team sitting together and smiling at the camera onsite in Los Laureles Canyon.

February 1, 2022

An Outstanding Team at the Tijuana River

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