Litterati

Litterati is a mobile app whose platform produces litter data. According to its official website, this data is used to fuel litigation, packaging footprints, and infrastructure investment, and to enforce accountability, measure change over time, and inform investment. Documented uses include San Francisco's legal defense of its litter abatement tax, Keep Britain Tidy's national baseline study on smoking-related and food and drink packaging litter, and the World Bank's city-level litter and waste analysis under the City to Sea program.

Litterati is described in Wikidata as a mobile app. Its official website states that its platform produces data that fuels litigation, packaging footprints, and infrastructure investment. Documented applications include San Francisco, where Litterati worked with the city to study representative areas and document with an auditable and verifiable method how much of the city's litter came from the tobacco industry and how many cigarette butts; based on the data, the court ruled in favor of the new cigarette sales tax and doubled the size of the initial tax. Keep Britain Tidy partnered with Litterati to conduct a national baseline study on litter across more than 5,250 locations throughout England, Wales, Northern Ireland, and Scotland, with a follow-up study the following year showing up to a 17% reduction of cigarette butt littering. The World Bank used Litterati's data to address mismanaged waste in several cities in East Africa, mapping litter and mismanaged waste hotspots and estimating volume and weight, with city-by-city comparisons among Dar es Salaam, Tanga, Bagamoyo, and Mtwara; the partnership expanded to similar initiatives in Kenya and Mozambique.

1. 1Litteratilitterati.org
2. 2San Francisco — Litteratilitterati.org
3. 3United Kingdom — Litteratilitterati.org
4. 4World Bank — Litteratilitterati.org
5. 5Litteratiwikidata.org