Report
One person’s sighting
A pin on the map, a category, a rough amount in words and up to three photos. It is not measured, so a report has no score and no severity.
About Cleartrail · Greater Munnar
Litter you can count, on roads you can name.
Cleartrail is a public litter map for Greater Munnar. Anyone can report litter. Trained auditors measure fixed road segments with a published method, and cleanups are shown with proof.
Two kinds of evidence, never blended
Each is shown on its own, and neither changes the other.
Audit
A measured count
A trained auditor walks one whole segment and counts every item. Method v1 turns the count into the Munnar Litter Index, 0 to 100, where higher is worse.
A report never changes an index, and an audit is never counted as a report. They are listed and coloured apart everywhere.
The pilot area
Greater Munnar: the road corridor from Munnar town to Top Station, and everything within 2 km of its routes. Four routes run along it, one after the other.
- MN-MATMunnar to Mattupetty
- MAT-ECHMattupetty to Echo Point
- ECH-KUNEcho Point to Kundala
- KUN-TOPKundala to Top Station
Cut once, never moved
Each route is cut into fixed 500 m segments, measured from the route’s start, such as MN-MAT-007. A segment is never moved or regenerated, so two audits of it always measure the same road.
Who can report, who can audit
Anyone can report
Reading the map needs no account. To send a report, sign in with an email link. There is no password. Reports are public, and a reporter’s name is never shown.
Report litterBecome an auditor
An auditor is trained to walk a segment and count it the same way every time. The role is given to people once they are trained. Apply to become an auditor
What an auditor does
- Walks one whole 500 m segment, once.
- Counts every item within 2 m of the road edge, by kind.
- Notes the conditions on the segment and adds photos.
- Submits the count, and method v1 scores it as shown below.
Already an auditor? Open audit mode
Method v1 · current
How a score is made
These are the rules that turn an audit’s counts into a score. Every figure on this page is read from the same code that scores audits, so the page cannot drift from the method.
Count
The auditor counts every item on the whole segment. Each kind of item carries a weight. Glass counts for more because it injures people and animals and does not blow away.
- ×1PET bottleswater and soft-drink bottles
- ×1Multilayer wrapperschips, biscuits, sachets
- ×1Cups & platespaper and plastic
- ×1.6Glassbottles and fragments
- ×1Other littercloth, foil, mixed
Scale to a kilometre
The weighted count is divided by the segment’s length in kilometres, so a short tail segment and a full one compare fairly.
Add the conditions
Two conditions the auditor sees on the walk add to the weighted count per kilometre.
- Bulk dumping present+120 per km
- Overflowing bin on segment+40 per km
Make the index
The weighted count per kilometre is divided by 4, rounded to a whole number and capped at 100. That is the Munnar Litter Index.
Water body within 20 m. A segment beside water adds 10 index points, still capped at 100. This comes from the segment plan, never from the auditor.
Read the band
The severity band comes from the index alone.
- Low0 to 24
- Moderate25 to 49
- High50 to 69
- Severe70 to 100
Beside the index an audit also shows items per km: the plain, unweighted count scaled to a kilometre.
Worked example
One segment, step by step
A made-up 500 m segment. Cleartrail’s code scores these counts when the page is built, and each step is shown.
- Counted
- 18 PET bottles ×1
- 31 Multilayer wrappers ×1
- 9 Cups & plates ×1
- 6 Glass ×1.6
- 4 Other litter ×1
- Weighted count
- 71.6
- Per kilometre
- 71.6 ÷ 0.5 km = 143.2
- Conditions
- Overflowing bin on segment: +40Total per kilometre: 183.2
- Index before water
- 183.2 ÷ 4 = 46
- Beside water
- +10 points
56/100Munnar Litter Index
BandHigh136 items per km
Method v1 · Current
Method versions
Method v1 is the current method. A change to a weight, a bonus or a band is published as a new version beside this one, never as an edit. Every audit keeps the version that scored it, so a score never changes after the fact.
How a place’s story works
An episode is one continuous problem at one place, from the first report to resolution. Later reports of the same thing join the episode instead of starting a new one.
What opens an episode
A report, an audit that counts high or severe, or a recorded cleanup opens an episode on a segment. A request for a cleanup does not, and neither does a low or moderate audit.
The steps, in the order they normally happen. Any can be skipped.
- ReportedCommunity reports of the place. A count, never a score.
- VerifiedThe first audit counted before any cleanup.Audit only
- Cleanup requestedPeople ask for a cleanup. A count of people.
- CleanedA cleanup is recorded with who did it, when, and before and after photos.
- Verified cleanA follow-up audit counts low.Audit only
The follow-up
A follow-up audit is due 14 Munnar calendar days after the cleanup. An audit sooner still counts, and is marked early.
The first audit after a cleanup decides it
Low means the cleanup held and the episode closes. Any other band means it did not hold and the episode stays open. Later audits before the next cleanup are listed but decide nothing.
If litter returns after an episode closes, a new episode starts. The old one stays on record.
What demo data means
Anything made up to show how Cleartrail works carries the Demo tag. Demo reports, audits and cleanups are counted apart from real ones and are never hidden inside a total or an average.
See it. Report it.
One photo and one location is enough to put a place on the map.