During research I came across CLEAR - The anti-colonial and feminist laboratory in Canada is doing research on plastic pollution - their approach sounds very interesting:

"Civic Laboratory for Environmental Action Research (CLEAR) is a feminist, anti-colonial laboratory, which means our methods foreground values of humility, equity, and good land relations. We’re working to do research differently. Civic Laboratory for Environmental Action Research (CLEAR) is an interdisciplinary natural and social science lab space dedicated to good land relations directed by Dr. Max Liboiron at Memorial University, Canada. Equal parts research space, methods incubator, and social collective, CLEAR’s ways of doing things, from environmental monitoring of plastic pollution to how we run lab meetings, are based on values of humility, accountability, and anti-colonial research relations. We specialize in community-based and citizen science monitoring of plastic pollution, particularly in wild food webs, and the creation and use of anti-colonial research methodologies."