They’ve grappled with everything from cigarette butts to sunken traffic dividers, tackled an increasing amount of trash from the pandemic, and dodged the occasional angry duck. Two weeks notice Co-founder Auke-Florian Hiemstra announced on Twitter on Tuesday that Plastic Spotter’s fleet of six canoes, which have been moored along Leiden’s Oude Vest canal since early 2020, would need to be …
Since 2019, a fearless team of Leiden University students and other local residents have been dedicated to removing and studying the random stuff that winds up in the city’s waterways. These are just three of the unusual items Plastic Spotter’s team has retrieved from Leiden’s canals during their weekly boating treks. ‘We collect this data to show how much trash …
