Global Alert Platform - Launch in Times Square

The launch of the Global Alert platform in Times Square is thanks to Morgan Stanley for the use of their beautiful screens on the corner of 47th and Broadway. SEE-SHARE-SOLVE. The Global Alert platform and app allows people to track trash hot-spots anywhere in the world's waterways and coastlines, via photos and mapping. This allows stakeholders in those communities to better manage their waters via cleanups, prevention, recycling and long term strategies for trash reduction. Case studies from Nusa Penida, Bali, and South Africa's Hope Spots can be seen here: http://www.oceanrecov.org/global-ocean-alert-system/case-studies.html

Global Alert was created by Ocean Recovery Alliance (www.oceanrecov.org), and NGO based in Hong Kong and California, and was announced at the Clinton Global Initiative. It has been partly funded by the World Bank's Global Partnership for Oceans, and is also available in Spanish. It can be downloaded for free from both app stores, and has a web-based platform which allows for uploads of photos for site mapping even without a smart phone. It also allows for the printing of excel spreadsheets of data and site information. 

Global Alert is meant for the world to use, as it allows for localized management and solutions of watersheds and coastlines with visual and mapped information which most communities do not have access to. Community engagement is valuable, not only in creating further awareness, but in giving individuals a chance to make a difference when they see large areas of trash, but might not be able to clean it, or do not know who to call. Now, by taking photos of trash areas near or in the water, we can collectively help to prevent it from going downstream, or out to sea.

Your support for this app and our work is appreciated, as we are a non-profit organization, and rely on donations in order to keep creating innovative and scaled solutions for the reduction of plastic pollution.

Source: Ocean Recovery Alliance

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