Marine litter (data from LitterWatch)

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Created 09 Jun 2015 Published 09 Jun 2015 Last modified 09 Jun 2015

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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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Temporal coverage:

Dynamic

Last upload:

04 Jun 2015

Geographic coverage:

Austria , Belgium , Bulgaria , Cyprus , Czech Republic , Denmark , Estonia , Europe , Finland , France , Germany , Greece , Hungary , Iceland , Ireland , Italy , Latvia , Liechtenstein , Lithuania , Luxembourg , Malta , Netherlands , Norway , Poland , Portugal , Romania , Slovakia , Slovenia , Spain , Sweden , Switzerland , Turkey , United Kingdom

Tags:

marine litterwatch , marine litter

Rights:

EEA standard re-use policy: unless otherwise indicated, re-use of content on the EEA website for commercial or non-commercial purposes is permitted free of charge, provided that the source is acknowledged (http://www.eea.europa.eu/legal/copyright). Copyright holder: European Environment Agency (EEA).

Methodology:

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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