The weather is starting to improve, and soon many people will head to the vast coastline and waterways of western New York.

When you leave this season, you may see something strange floating in the water-officials want people to know-leave it alone.

This is a project composed of researchers from the University of Toronto, whose goal is to track the fate of trash and other trash in the lake.

These bottles appear to be modified mixing bottles. Each orange bottle is equipped with a GPS sensor inside, which can track the journey of the bottle through different routes from different drop points and provide information about where most of the garbage in the lake finally landed.

CTV News says that researchers are interested in tracking how floating garbage moves in Lake Ontario; specifically, how plastic moves.

The team plans to use this data to best find out where to install garbage collection equipment.

According to CTV News, 20 bottles were dropped into Lake Ontario, and their trackers can provide hourly data on the location of the bottles.

According to the Plastic Ocean Project, more than 22 million tons of plastic waste enters the Great Lakes every year—comparable to the amount of plastic waste in the Great Pacific Garbage Belt.

Of the 22 million tons of plastic waste, 3 million pounds of plastic waste flowed into Lake Ontario.