Atlas of Plastic Waste

According to the Basel Action Network, "This article discusses 'the Atlas of Plastic Waste', the joint project of The Basel Action Network (BAN), a global watchdog group tracking global trade in wastes, and academics at Columbia and Yale Universities. The project, mapping thousands of plastic waste dumps across the world, aims to harness human discoveries, along with inputs from satellite and computer technology to identify and map sites in every country where plastic waste ends up in the terrestrial environment. Their objective is to provide an evolving database designed to raise awareness among environmental officials and the general public on the unsustainable characteristics of plastic.

BAN, a core member of the Break Free From Plastics Movement, plans to make the data publicly available on its website. Until then, BAN encourages the public to nominate their least favorite dumpsite."