AUSMAP x Ocean Lovers Festival 2025

WHEN: 3pm - 4:30pm Saturday 22nd March, 2025 

WHERE: Seagull Room, Bondi Pavilion, Sydney

The Australian Microplastic Assessment Project (AUSMAP) invites you to join our engaging Science in Action workshop—a hands-on experience designed to educate and empower. Over 90 minutes, the dedicated AUSMAP team will guide you through the global challenge of microplastic pollution and its presence in our everyday lives.

You'll then put your knowledge into action by sorting a locally collected AUSMAP microplastic sample. This careful sorting process not only deepens your understanding of microplastic contamination, but also directly contributes to our ongoing research. Your efforts will feed into the AUSMAP national hotspot database, supporting meaningful scientific discoveries and influencing potential policy changes.

Be part of the movement making a real difference in the fight against microplastic pollution while gaining valuable skills and insights.

Workshop suitable for ages 15+.

This workshop is $10, with all proceeds raised contributing to AUSMAP's mission to put microplastics on the map. 

About AUSMAP

It’s hard to solve a problem you can’t see - until recently, microplastic pollution presented scientists with a crisis that was invisible to the naked eye. Now we have AUSMAP.

By translating data into vivid maps of plastic pollution hotspots all over Australia, the Australian Microplastic Assessment Project (AUSMAP) makes it easy for everyone to see the scale & nature of this growing problem.

We need to know how much is out there before we figure out what to do with it. We also need large numbers of Australians to engage with behaviour change, so we can stop any more plastic entering our waterways.

Data collected by citizen scientists helps create an entire ‘source to solution pathway’, from identifying microplastic hotspots that can then be used to recognise potential sources, to help implement reduction strategies to improve management.

AUSMAP is a not-for-profit charity of the Total Environment Centre (TEC).