Clean Up and Waste Audit in Perm, Russia

Greenpeace Russia volunteers cleaned up the coastline of the Kama River in Perm. They collected all trash on a 100-meter stretch of the coast line: plastic bottles, single-use plastic containers, cups and other garbage. 12 activists made a description of different types of plastic waste collected on the coast.
Greenpeace Russia organized a series of "plasticwatching" actions in different cities. In 2019 participants of these actions collected, counted and sorted 229,123 garbage fragments into categories. It turned out that 68.1% of them are plastic, and 31.9% — other types of waste.
96.2% of 156,125 plastic fragments are parts of disposable items and packaging.