eCleanup: Verified Environmental Leadership Portfolio

eCleanup helps volunteers, students, schools, NGOs, and communities report litter, coordinate cleanup work, document completion, and build searchable proof of environmental leadership with GPS-tagged cleanup records.

How eCleanup works

1. Report litter with a map location, photos, category, size, and safety notes.
2. Claim cleanup work or join an event when you are prepared to pick up the site safely.
3. Document completion with after-photos, notes, weight, completion percentage, and participants.
4. Use completed cleanup records and certificates as public evidence of environmental impact.

Public eCleanup pages

• Cleanup map
• How eCleanup works
• eCleanup FAQ
• Environmental cleanup articles
• Cleanup certificates
• Environmental impact stats

Featured cleanup reports

• The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is a vast, diffuse accumulation of plastic debris spanning an area roughly twice the size of Texas, drifting in the North Pacific Gyre between Hawaii and California. Coordinates: 35, -140. Status: open.
• The Indian Ocean Garbage Patch is a sprawling zone of plastic pollution in the Indian Ocean gyre south of the equator, stretching from the east coast of Africa toward Australia. Coordinates: -30, 75. Status: open.
• The Citarum River in West Java, Indonesia was once one of the most polluted rivers on Earth. Coordinates: -6.9, 107.6. Status: open.
• The Western Pacific Garbage Patch is the lesser-known sibling of the Eastern patch, trapped in the western arm of the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre east of Japan. Coordinates: 35, 150. Status: open.
• The North Atlantic Garbage Patch accumulates within the North Atlantic subtropical gyre, a slow-rotating current system stretching between North America, Europe, and the Sargasso Sea. Coordinates: 32, -45. Status: open.

Environmental cleanup articles

• Not All Bad: Seven Real Wins in the Fight Against Waste: The headlines are grim, but the numbers do move when policy and accountability are real. From California to Rwanda to Norway, here are seven places where the fight against plastic waste produced documented, measurable results.
• Let's Make Littering Data-Centric: Global plastic waste exceeded 415 million tonnes in 2023, and 70% of it comes from just 20 countries. Data tells us exactly where to act and whether our actions are working. Here is how measuring the problem precisely becomes the path to reducing it.
• The Hidden Toll: How Our Trash Harms Nature and Wildlife: Every year, 8 million tonnes of plastic enter our oceans. But much of it starts on land, in parks, forests, and roadsides. Self-awareness about our waste habits is one of the most powerful changes we can make.