Greenpeace volunteers in Nizhniy Novgorod participated in the plastic pollution research - plasticwatching. They collected garbage on the Volga river shore and studied it for types - plastic, glass, metal, etc.
Plasticwatching is a Greenpeace Russia project. Hundreds of Russians in 171 cities were running 275 research events during one month (24/08-15/09). Greenpeace Russia collected the complete data and defined the main types of polluters of the shores of water bodies.. These are cigarette butts, single-use plastic packaging, bags, bottles, food containers, cups and cup lids, wet wipes.
Greenpeace Russia demands that the government reduces or bans certain types of single-use plastics to tackle the plastic pollution crisis.