Plastic Fishing with Plastic Whale...

The following day we headed up to Amsterdam to go plastic fishing with Plastic Whale, a social enterprise trying to rid the land and sea of plastic. I just happen to follow them on Instagram and they offered a free trip out on one of their boats to help cleam up the canals, so I jumped at the opportunity. Jimmy was by far the best fisherman on our boat, catching a lightbulb that still worked...

…and one like-new Dr. Martens boot. 

There were separate containers in the center of the boat to separate recyclables from trash. 

Jimmy didn’t hesitate to crawl onto other boats to get hard to reach trash...

…or to climb onto barriers along the canal...

...where he found a large bag of bottles from a party. 

He also found this lovely umbrella in Dutch colors, which this Dutch woman was happy to take home. 

In addition to fishing out trash, I took a lot of photos including this shot of our group reflected on the back of this ship. 

Our captain kindly offered to take our photo at the end of our journey on our boat, which was made out of recycled plastic from the canals. 

Here's what our group managed to collect, which was a good haul but not the largest gathered that day. We had a lot of fun despite being reminded regularly that people are pigs.