• Kacy Wu (Team Lead)
• Shubham Negi (Mentor)
• Carol Yang
• Farhad Kazi
• Jessie Giddings
• Johanne Lemaire
• Stephen Wu
• Yana Pertels

Background

• Since the middle of the 20th century, the rapidly increasing global production of plastics (322 million per year in 2016) has been accompanied by
• Microplastics are a concern to ocean health because they are ingested by marine plankton, move across food webs and like all plastic litter they can persist in the ocean for an extremely long time (hundreds of years).
• With the world’s longest coastline, this problem is of particular urgency for Canadians.

• Do we pollute more in the summer months?
• Are the most populated cities the most polluted?
• Is plastic waste growing the fastest?

• The Greate Canadian Shoreline Data.

• Since 1994, the Great Canadian Shoreline Cleanup has collected over 1.7 million kg of trash across Canada’s shorelines over thousands of volunteer cleanup event. The dataset for this challenge provides three years of shoreline cleanup data across Canada.

this scrip contains five main jupyter notebooks:

1. Temporal analysis of total waste amount by year.ipynb: general temporal analysis of total waste.
2. Temporal analysis of total waste amount monthly in monthly_analysis.ipynb.
3. Monthly_analysis.ipynb: montly change of waste from 2017-2019.
4. Most_Common_Types_Of_Waste.ipynb: most common types of Waste comparison over time.
5. Datajam_Interactive_Map.ipynb: interactive spatial map analysis of waste (plastic vs non-plastic): I. non_map.html: non-plastic waste map II. plastic_map.html: plastic waste map

Our team is very collaborative and we successfully get everything done in a one-day hackathon. Here is our slides.

Comparison of Environmental Impact of Plastic, Paper and Cloth Bags: http://www.niassembly.gov.uk/globalassets/documents/raise/publications/2011/environment/3611.pdf

Surfrider Foundations: https://therevelator.org/cigarette-butt-litter-solutions/