Together, WE can ALL beat microplastic pollution.

Access the resources and tools to tackle microplastic sources and solutions in your community or school.

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Become a Microplastics Community Scientist:

  1. Collect real data from your local sandy beach.

  2. Evaluate the data to identify potential microplastics sources and impacts.

  3. Engage your community and local decision makers in solutions.

The Microplastics Science Guide

 

Access illustrated learning materials, microplastic beach survey instructions, data analysis tools, and community outreach activities to tackle microplastic pollution in your community.

Illustrated examples of what's included in the microplastics toolkit.
An example of an in-classroom microplastic sampling activity, showing a tin of sand, a sieve, spoons and instructions
A middle school student kneels down on the beach sifting sand through a sieve to look for microplastics.
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What's Inside the Guide

Turn Learning into Data and Data into Action

The Microplastics Science Guide includes everything you need to learn about, sample, analyze, identify solutions and advocate to tackle microplastic pollution:

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Optional lesson plans for schools use
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Illustrated microplastics learning resources
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Step-by-step beach sampling activity
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Sandy beach OR classroom sampling activity 
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Data analysis instructions, templates and tools
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Community engagement activities 
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Training videos

Support the SDGs and Ocean Decade

 
The UN Sustainable Development Goals and UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development (Ocean Decade) outline frameworks to empower youth and local communities to contribute the data needed for the ocean protection we all want.

The Microplastics Science Education Guide provides tangible ways for youth and the public to...

  • Develop ocean literacy
  • Fill data gaps to help inform solutions
  • Understand and beat marine plastic pollution
  • Develop skills, knowledge and participation

  • Protect Life Below Water (SDG 14)

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Join the global citizen science movement to beat plastic pollution.

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Export Barbados

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Algoma University

Two young women sift sand on the beach looking for microplastics

Odaqua Mission

Five citizen scientists sit in the sand at a beach sieving sand for microplastics

Let's Talk Trash

A group of Nigerian youth walk on a pathway wearing rubber gloves to complete a plastic cleanup

Re-Cycle Me Solution

A three-generational family stands together on the shore after having completed a microplastics surey

ODI Pilot Study

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We acknowledge with respect the Lekwungen peoples on whose traditional territory our office stands, and the Songhees, Esquimalt and WSÁNEĆ peoples whose historical relationships with the land continue to this day.

Ocean Diagnostics is a Canadian environmental impact company that empowers researchers and community scientists to monitor microplastic pollution and biodiversity loss in freshwater and marine environments with cutting-edge technologies.

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