Aaron Ward, left, project manager of development services with the City of Thunder Bay, and Kennedy Bucci, right, Rethinking Waste Co-ordinator for Eco Superior, hold a LittaTrap on April 25. The device is designed to capture microplastics and debris in storm drains.
EcoSuperior's new LittaTraps program is proving successful at keeping garbage out of area waterways.Aaron Ward, left, project manager of development services with the City of Thunder Bay, and Kennedy Bucci, right, Rethinking Waste Co-ordinator for Eco Superior, hold a LittaTrap on April 25 when the project began. The device is designed to capture microplastics and debris in storm drains. EcoSuperior's new LittaTraps program is proving successful at keeping garbage out of area waterways.
"We've tried to capture a few different land-use types," said EcoSuperior's Rethinking Waste Coordinator Kennedy Bucci. "We have some at and at Lakehead University. We have some in public spaces, so at Hillcrest, Boulevard Lake and at the Marina." "The rest is food wrappers, beverage bottle lids, little pieces of plastic fragments that have broken off of larger items, and also films, we call them, which is just plastic wrap that is broken down into smaller and smaller pieces."Information about the types of trash found is then uploaded to an international database called the International Trash Trap Network, Bucci said, where it can be used by scientists and policy advocates to help mitigate plastic pollution.
"There's also lots of different types of wildlife that use our lake for their drinking water or their habitat."
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