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MEDIA COVERAGE

28/04/2024

Ohio State University

Ohio Sea Grant Gears Up for New Season with Trash-Removal Tech

24/04/2024

CBC News

This trash robot is cleaning up Michigan's shores, keeping plastic out of the Detroit River

19/04/2024

Route Fifty

In one city, litter meets its mechanical match

10/04/2024

Urbanize Detroit

This robot will pick up trash on Belle Isle this summer

10/04/2024

Axios Detroit

Detroit's Belle Isle Beach gets trash cleanup robot

09/04/2024

Michigan Chronicle

Detroit Unveils BeBot Technology for Litter-Free Belle Isle Beach

09/04/2024

City of Detroit

City of Detroit to Launch ‘BeBot’ Litter Removal Technology to Clean Up Belle Isle Beach

01/10/2023

C-Tow Marine Assistance Ltd

Meet the Great Lakes Plastic Cleanup 

03/9/2023

CRC Press

Plastic Pollution: Nature Based Solutions and Effective Governance

20/07/2023

Kingston This Week

New partnership with the City of Belleville to curb plastic pollution

Also Published in: The Intelligencer, Cornwall Standard-Freeholder, and The Recorder & Times 

19/07/2023

Quinte News 

New partnership to tackle plastic pollution

27/05/2023

Farm and Dairy

Cleaning up Lake Erie, robot style

19/05/2023

Environment Journal

Reminder to curb the plastic pollution problem, before the long weekend

19/05/2023

WKYC

Planet CLE: BeBot and PixieDrone join the Great Lakes Plastic Cleanup

11/04/2023

News10NBC

RIT and Seneca Park Zoo Society to host plastic cleanup event in Charlotte

17/03/2023

Francopresse

Série Grands Lacs : Le lac Ontario, victime de son succès

24/02/2023

Great Lakes Now

Science Says What? Microplastic pollution — how worried should we be?

04/11/2022

University of Waterloo

We’re in this together: The benefits of collaborative microplastics research in a connected world

25/10/2022

Queen's Gazette

Queen’s joins Lake Ontario cleanup project

15/10/2022

The Ticker

Beach Cleanup Goes High-Tech

14/10/2022

The Verge

How a fleet of robots could help solve the Great Lakes plastic pollution problem

27/09/2022

World Economic Forum

The Great Lakes are awash in plastic. Can robots and drones help?

24/08/2022

CityNews

Probing the Great Lakes plastic problem

23/08/2022

Water Canada

Managing microplastics: The Great Lakes Plastic Cleanup

15/07/2022

Toronto Star

Program aims to help solve problem of plastics in Great Lakes

04/07/2022

The Meaford Independent

Working to Remove Plastics From Our Waterways

14/06/2022

CTV News

Traps to catch microfibres and garbage set up at Kingston marinas

10/06/2022

The Kingston Whig Standard

City of Kingston to do its part to remove plastics from Lake Ontario

20/04/2022

PR Newswire

Meijer Donates $1M to the Council of the Great Lakes Region to Clean Up Midwest Lakeshores

11/07/2022

Buffalo Rising

Seabin™ Technology Implemented at Buffalo Harbor State Park

10/06/2022

Global News

City of Kingston installs 'seabins' to clean plastics from Lake Ontario

28/11/2021

Oakville News

Anglers tackle plastics pollution problem in Bronte

05/11/2021

The Bay Observer

Teaming Up to Tackle Waste in the Great Lakes

27/09/2021

CBC News

Industrial plastic is spilling into Great Lakes, and no one's regulating it, experts warn

28/08/2021

Midland Today

Environmental group works to eliminate plastics entering Georgian Bay

01/08/2021

Collingwood Today

Georgian Bay Forever studying microplastics in Collingwood's waterways

04/07/2021

Barrie 360

Collingwood installs Seabins and gutter bins to divert plastic pollution from Georgian Bay

24/05/2021

CTV News Toronto

Environmentalist group launches new PSA to prevent plastic pollution

24/05/2021

Collingwood Today

Little bits, Big problem: group works to clean up plastic from Great Lakes

19/05/2021

CityNews Toronto

Cleaning up the Great Lakes

12/05/2021

Water Canada

Great Lakes Plastic Cleanup Kicks Off Campaign to Address Plastic Pollution

12/05/2021

Environment Journal

Great Lakes Plastics Pollution Cleanup Campaign Kicks Off

12/05/2021

CTV Morning Live Ottawa

Little Bits, Big Problems | Christopher Hilkene and Mark Fisher talk about the Great Lakes Plastic Cleanup and the state of pollution in our waters

11/05/2021

Canadian Plastics

Great Lakes Plastic Cleanup launches new campaign to prevent plastic pollution

07/12/2020

Toronto Sun

SIERRA: We can solve the issue of plastic waste without bans

10/11/2020

Great Lakes Now

Plastic Trap: New project pulls plastics out of the lakes, one floating garbage can at a time

04/11/2020

The Chatham Voice

C-K marinas partner with gov’t on lake study

30/10/2020

Global News

Cobourg installs plastic cleanup technology at marina as part of provincial initiative

30/10/2020

The Sarnia Journal

Nova helping remove Great Lakes trash

27/10/2020

CTV Windsor

Lake Erie marina part of Ontario’s largest plastic reduction project

22/10/2020

WDIO-ABC

Ontario funds project to capture plastic waste at 12 Great Lakes marinas

07/10/2020

Environment Journal

Georgian Bay Org Joins the Great Lakes Plastic Cleanup  

01/10/2020

CBC News

The Great Lakes are awash in plastic. A new project is using trash-trapping technology to get rid of it

17/09/2020

The Sarnia Observer

Nova Chemicals helping fund Great Lakes Plastic Cleanup

16/09/2020

Blackburn News

Floating trash bin skimming the waters of Sarnia Bay

(Video) PixieDrone star of the show in Lake Simcoe clean-up partnership between Barrie and Pollution Probe

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