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Anthropogenic litter data collected from the Portoviejo River, Ecuador, 2021-2022
This data resource contains information on anthropogenic litter from the Portoviejo River, in Ecuador, collected between years 2021 and 2022. This work is part of the Natural Environment Research Council project “Reducing the impacts of plastic waste in the Eastern Pacific Ocean” (NE/V005448/1). The purpose of collecting this dataset was to obtain consistent observational data of solid waste contamination in a South American river system using a newly developed clean-up technology called the Azure System. The dataset contains information of weight (in kilograms) of different categories of anthropogenic litter collected using the Azure System, a floating barrier designed as a litter extraction tool for rivers. The system was developed by Ichthion Limited ( https://ichthion.com/), who were also responsible for data collection on site. The barrier was installed at the city of Portoviejo, where litter was collected from February 2021 until December 2022 and quantities were reported weekly for each month. Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/e78e1cef-e30b-4313-8733-c03e1a7b7b2f
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- Date (Publication)
- 2024-07-05
- Date (Creation)
- 2024-05-08
- Citation identifier
- https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/e78e1cef-e30b-4313-8733-c03e1a7b7b2f
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- doi: / 10.5285/e78e1cef-e30b-4313-8733-c03e1a7b7b2f
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Pinheiro, L., Ita-Nagy, D., Hidalgo, D.G., Flor, D., Osorio Baquero, A., Becerra, N., Grønneberg, I., Vázquez-Rowe, I., Kahhat, R., Lewis, C., Galloway, T.S. (2024). Anthropogenic litter data collected from the Portoviejo River, Ecuador, 2021-2022. NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre 10.5285/e78e1cef-e30b-4313-8733-c03e1a7b7b2f
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role University of Exeter Pinheiro, L. Author Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú Ita-Nagy, D. Author Ichthion Limited
Hidalgo, D.G.
Author University of Exeter Flor, D. Author University of Exeter Osorio Baquero, A. Author Ichthion Limited
Becerra, N.
Author Ichthion Limited
Grønneberg, I. Author Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú Vázquez-Rowe, I. Author Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú Kahhat, R. Author University of Exeter Lewis, C. Author University of Exeter Galloway, T.S. Author NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre Custodian NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre Publisher University of Exeter Pinheiro, L. Point of contact University of Exeter EMAIL NOT PROVIDED
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GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
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If you reuse this data, you should cite: Pinheiro, L., Ita-Nagy, D., Hidalgo, D.G., Flor, D., Osorio Baquero, A., Becerra, N., Grønneberg, I., Vázquez-Rowe, I., Kahhat, R., Lewis, C., Galloway, T.S. (2024). Anthropogenic litter data collected from the Portoviejo River, Ecuador, 2021-2022. NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre https://doi.org/10.5285/e78e1cef-e30b-4313-8733-c03e1a7b7b2f
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- Text, table
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- 100 urn:ogc:def:uom:EPSG::9001
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- English
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- Inland waters
- Begin date
- 2021-02-01
- End date
- 2022-12-31
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- WGS 84
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Name Version Comma-separated values (CSV)
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre
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Protocol Linkage Name https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/data/e78e1cef-e30b-4313-8733-c03e1a7b7b2f Download the data
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Protocol Linkage Name https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/sd/e78e1cef-e30b-4313-8733-c03e1a7b7b2f.zip Supporting information
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Commission Regulation (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services
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- 2010-12-08
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Data for anthropogenic litter was originally tabulated by operators and Ichthion as weight (kilograms) by week for general litter categories describing its previous use (e.g.: plastic bottles, plastic food wrappers, plastic grocery bags, plastic straws/cutlery, metal, organic waste, glass bottle and jar, fil plastics, plastic cup, footwear, foam container, tetrapak drinks, hard plastic pieces, and others). Initial spreadsheets consisted of separated excel files for each sampling year (2021 and 2022), and within each file there were separated tabs for each month. From those initial spreadsheets, litter data was checked by Ichthion for quality control and then reorganised at the University of Exeter onto a new spreadsheet, reclassifying the types of anthropogenic litter according to OSPAR Guidelines Guideline for Monitoring Marine Litter on the Beaches in the OSPAR Maritime Area, Edition 1.0, 2010 ( https://www.ospar.org/ospar-data/10-02e_beachlitter%20guideline_english%20only.pdf). Upon reclassification, data was then organised in weight of anthropogenic items per litter category per week, as seen on the provided dataset.
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- e78e1cef-e30b-4313-8733-c03e1a7b7b2f XML
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- English
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- 8859 Part 1
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- 2025-03-21T12:34:28
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- UK GEMINI
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre Point of contact
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