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Marine litter (data from LitterWatch)

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Created 09 Jun 2015 Published 09 Jun 2015 Last modified 08 Jun 2018
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The European Environment Agency has developed Marine LitterWatch mobile app to collect information on marine litter and strengthen Europe’s knowledge base and thus provide support to European policy making. Marine LitterWatch is a citizen science based app that aims to help fill data gaps in beach litter monitoring.

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Marine LitterWatch data

Data collected from the marine LitterWatch mobile app

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Marine LitterWatch is a citizen science based app that aims to help fill data gaps in beach litter monitoring.

    • two-tier approach: monitoring to support official processes and voluntary clean-ups.
    • choose from a European master list of commonly found marine litter items, such as cigarette butts, bottles, fishing materials...
    • data is submitted through the app to the EEA hosted Marine LitterWatch database.
    • data can be extracted, visualised through the EEA website, or embedded in other web pages or applications.
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Data is collected via the Marine LitterWatch mobile app:

Marine LitterWatch data is also available via the following download service

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European Environment Agency (EEA)
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European Environment Agency (EEA)

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More info at Marine LitterWatch website

 

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Figure Total mismanaged PPSI in coastal NUTS3 in 2012 and 2018, by regional sea; Sum of the mid Median estimates (items/years) in larger and smaller european catchments within marine regions; and Median of items by litter group, by regional sea The figure shows three different descriptors of the quantity of marine litter by marine region.
Figure Assessment of marine litter in all four regional seas, 2010-2021 The map shows the results of a preliminary classification and identification of ‘non-problem areas’ and ‘potential problem areas’ with respect to marine litter in Europe’s Seas, using the prototype Marine Litter Assessment Tool (MALT), a multi-metric indicator-based status assessment tool. Please see the European Topic Centre (ETC) report "Marine Litter in Europe - An integrated assessment from source to sea".
Figure Distribution of marine litter by material type The illustration shows the distribution of marine litter reported by the public and where they were found
Figure When beaches become dumping grounds The illustration shows the top ten items of marine litter reported by the public and where they were found.

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For references, please go to https://www.eea.europa.eu/data-and-maps/data/marine-litter or scan the QR code.

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