Clean Up and Waste Audit in Volgograd, Russia

Greenpeace Russia volunteers cleaned up coastline of Volga river in Volgograd. They collected plastic trash on a 100-meter stretch of coast : plastic bottles, single-use plastic containers, cups and other garbage. The Greenpeace team made a description of the types of plastic waste collected on the coast.
Greenpeace Russia organized a series of «plasticwathing» actions in different cities. 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.