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Plastic Pirates - Go Europe!: Macrolitter data collected by citizens on riverbanks in Europe between 2022 and 2024
Citation
Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt e. V. (DLR). (2024). Plastic Pirates - Go Europe!: Macrolitter data collected by citizens on riverbanks in Europe between 2022 and 2024 (1.0.0) [Data set]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14419564
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Availability: Creative Commons License This dataset is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Description

Macrolitter data collected by school children on riverbanks in several European countries in the period 2022-2024 for the Plastic Pirates – Go Europe! project. The data have been validated by experts of the Plastic Pirates partner institutes.

Acknowledgement: These data have been collected by numerous school schildren and their teachers from primary and secondary schools. We would like to thank all of them for their valuable contributions.

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The data file contains data on the amount and variety of macrolitter items collected in Austria, Belgium, Germany, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Portugal, Slovenia and Spain during the autumn 2022, spring 2023, autumn 2023 and spring 2024 sampling campaigns of the project. The sampling methods used can be found in the Plastic Pirates project booklet (methods for group A, B and D): https://www.plastic-pirates.eu/en/material/download.

Part of the data can also be seen on the Plastic Pirates website: https://www.plastic-pirates.eu/en/results/map


Scope
Themes:
Environmental quality/pollution > Pollution levels & monitoring, Environmental quality/pollution > Site assessments/surveys

Temporal coverage
11 October 2021 - 14 August 2024

Contributors
Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee (VLIZ), moredata manager
German Aerospace Centre (DLR), moredata owner

Related datasets
Other relation:
Plastic Pirates - Go Europe!: Floating macro-, meso- and microlitter data collected by citizens in rivers in Europe between 2022 and 2024, more

Dataset status: In Progress
Data type: Data
Data origin: Citizen science
Metadatarecord created: 2024-12-17
Information last updated: 2024-12-17
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