By Justin Atkinson, Liam Baldwin Jankiewicz, 10 November 2024
Nov 2024 data:
https://litterintelligence.org/data/survey?id=3319
Jan 2025 data:
https://litterintelligence.org/data/survey?id=3390
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VUWTC continues its support of Sustainable Coastline's efforts to reduce the litter present on our beaches, to educate people about the problems of human waste, and to lobby companies and governments to make human production and consumption more sustainable.
Some stats:
No of Opau Bay cleanups in 2024-25: 2 so far (Nov 24, Jan 25)
No of citizen scientists: 11 (Nov 24), 7 (Jan 25)
Area searched: 100m x 20m (Nov 24), 100m x 20m (Jan 25)
No of items found: 231 (Nov 24), 124 (Jan 25) total
Litter weight: 9.373kg (Nov 24), 4.636kg (Jan 25), TBC total
Plastics percentage of total litter: 91% (Nov 24), 82% (Jan 25)
Types of litter found: plastic (soft, hard, foamed), rubber, metal, wood, glass, TBC OTHERS?
Coolest items: walnuts, 1/3 of a buoy that had floated over from Marlborough Sounds mussel farms, shotgun shells, a big plastic banana leaf, toothbrush, a cricket ball, inflated life dingy, medical vaccination needle, super long and sharp carving knife