Tangaroa Blue and the Australian Marine Debris Initiative (AMDI)
Donate (tax-deductible) or log what you pick up in the AMDI database, the national record of what litter turns up where, used for source-reduction…
Scientists
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The Big Microplastic Survey
Sample beach or river sediment for microplastics with a standard kit; data goes to the University of Portsmouth. Run by UK charity Just One…
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Marine Debris Tracker app
Free open-data litter app from the University of Georgia and US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA); 2 million+ items logged and downloadable for…
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Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) National Marine Debris Portal
Report beach litter to CSIRO’s national portal; 7,000+ school citizen scientists have contributed to the Ending Plastic Waste mission’s data.
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Sydney Institute of Marine Science
Australian marine research institute where gifts of $2+ are tax-deductible; it hosts microplastics-in-oysters work but has no plastics-only fund.
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University of Plymouth marine research (Richard Thompson’s unit)
Give to the university’s Marine Research fund, home of the International Marine Litter Research Unit that coined ‘microplastics’.
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Plymouth Marine Laboratory
UK research charity (1091222) whose microplastics team includes Pennie Lindeque and Matthew Cole. Gifts are arranged by email; there is no online button.
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Australian Microplastic Assessment Project (AUSMAP): microplastic sampling and donations via Total Environment Centre (TEC)
Australia’s citizen-science microplastic survey, run by Total Environment Centre (a Class 1 deductible gift recipient, DGR1). Sample a shoreline or give to fund the…
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Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL)
Washington/Geneva legal nonprofit that shapes the Global Plastics Treaty and challenges petrochemical expansion. Donate online; 501(c)(3), Employer Identification Number 52-1633220.
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Plastic Soup Foundation
Dutch charity that campaigns, funds plastics-and-health science and takes legal action to stop plastic at the source. Donate online; Dutch public benefit organisation (ANBI)…