Welcome to the Interactive Map of Plastic Pollution!
Dive in, navigate, and explore the interface to see the full extent of the problem.
The study area covers the entire St. Lawrence watershed, located across the Eastern Canadian provinces of Ontario, Quebec, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, and Newfoundland and Labrador. Stretching over 3,700 km, the St. Lawrence watershed is among the largest in the world, with a surface area of 1.6 million km². It includes the Great Lakes, encompasses much of the Atlantic Ocean drainage basin, and counts more than 244 tributaries.
As part of this study, the sites surveyed have been classified into eight hydrographic zones: the Great Lakes, the river section, the fluvial estuary, the middle estuary, the maritime estuary, the Gulf, the Atlantic, and the rivers (tributaries).
The interactive map allows you to explore collection and survey efforts in real time, along the shorelines of Eastern Canada. Each cleanup is represented by a point and includes a summary of the activity: date, province, administrative region, municipality, location, total weight collected (kg), number of volunteers, and cleaned area (m²).
Go ahead — dive in to discover the collective impact we are having on our environment, and how we can all actively contribute to protecting what we love!
