Clean Up and Waste Audit in Russia, Petrozavodsk

Participants of "plasticwatching" action in process of sorting and counting all trash they found on the bank of the Onega Lake in Petrozavodsk.
Greenpeace Russia volunteers cleaned up the coastline of the Onega Lake in Petrozavodsk (Republic of Karelia, northwest of Russia). 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.
Activists collected: 10 364 units of various rubbish. 2476 pieces of all fragments were different kinds of plastic.
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.