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Since CleanUp News and National CleanUp Day started as Clean Trails, it only makes sense that we share the most recent studies and news regarding waste and litter in the landscapes we love. We split land-based stories and research-focused content between land and water, and often focus on parks or popular outdoor recreation areas.
Learn how data science can help turn trash data (not trashy data) into knowledge. This knowledge
needed to help combat the global problem of trash impacting our aquatic environments. This
presentation will discuss leveraging big data tools (open data, Trash Taxonomy, AI, machine learning,
web applications …) to turn data into action.
Why should you pick up your dog’s poop when you’re hiking? Find out the environmental and health hazards of dog waste so on your next hike, you won’t think twice about scooping your dog’s poop.
As natural disasters, like hurricanes, become more common across the globe, we are seeing higher numbers of climate displacement and migration. Coastal communities are among the areas impacted, yet, so many residents refuse to leave.
The more you know about the outdoors, the easier it becomes to want to protect it. So, in an effort to help motivate more outdoor lovers to keep our trails clean, here is an overview of riparian zones and the importance of keeping them clean.
While we may all know a lot about the impacts of litter on marine ecosystems, we know very little about the human lives on land that are put in jeopardy every day due to litter.
Planet Oat and Clean Trails, the organizers of National CleanUp Day, have provided a donation to The Red Cross to help combat the Western Wildfires and are continuing to find ways to provide relief and better lands across the U.S.
Sometimes, cleanups go beyond keeping our wild spaces beautiful, and they help bring us together. Natural Restorations, a cleanup organization based out of Arizona, has found that restoring natural spaces is bringing military veterans together to build community one cleanup at a time.
Plastics are everywhere. Their invention was intended to be an environmentally friendly solution, in reality, plastics are an environmental nightmare. Plastics are a long-lived product filling a short term need, single-use plastics are just the tip of the iceberg.
Can you tell the difference between what is litter and what is an archeological artifact? Leave No Trace often tells us to pick up everything we see on the trail, but what if that isn't always the right thing to do?
At the rate the U.S. is generating waste, landfill space will eventually run out, which means we desperately need new solutions to reduce the size of our landfills. Here are some waste management technologies diverting waste from landfills.