Microplastics project to record amount, location and origin of pollution in the oceans

A global citizen science project launched in Sydney will recruit students and volunteers to count and record some of the five trillion pieces of plastic in the oceans. "We're using two methods: a transect line where they're collecting the large stuff — plastic bottles, plastic bags, anything that's visible — that data gets added into the Australian Marine Debris Initiative database," Dr Blewitt said. because we feel that the more people are engaged with something like this, the more they're ready to be environmental activists to minimise our plastic rubbish going into our oceans," Dr Blewitt said. "We collect straws every weekend and count how many we find and use this to try and make businesses change their practices around straws and other plastics," she said.