EMODnet product catalogue
Beach litter - Median number of plastic bags related plastic items normalized per 100m & to 1 survey - EU-MSFD monitoring 2001/2023 v2025
This visualization product displays the fishing & aquaculture related plastic items abundance of marine macro-litter (> 2.5cm) per beach per year from Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD) monitoring surveys.
EMODnet Chemistry included the collection of marine litter in its 3rd phase. Since the beginning of 2018, data of beach litter have been gathered and processed in the EMODnet Chemistry Marine Litter Database (MLDB).
The harmonization of all the data has been the most challenging task considering the heterogeneity of the data sources, sampling protocols and reference lists used on a European scale.
Preliminary processings were necessary to harmonize all the data:
- Exclusion of OSPAR 1000 protocol: in order to follow the approach of OSPAR that it is not including these data anymore in the monitoring;
- Selection of MSFD surveys only (exclusion of other monitoring, cleaning and research operations);
- Exclusion of beaches without coordinates;
- Selection of plastic bags related items only. The list of selected items is attached to this metadata. This list was created using EU Marine Beach Litter Baselines, the European Threshold Value for Macro Litter on Coastlines and the Joint list of litter categories for marine macro-litter monitoring from JRC (these three documents are attached to this metadata);
- Normalization of survey lengths to 100m & 1 survey / year: in some case, the survey length was not exactly 100m, so in order to be able to compare the abundance of litter from different beaches a normalization is applied using this formula:
Number of plastic bags related items of the survey (normalized by 100 m) = Number of plastic bags related items of the survey x (100 / survey length)
Then, this normalized number of plastic bags related items is summed to obtain the total normalized number of plastic bags related items for each survey. Finally, the median abundance of plastic bags related items for each beach and year is calculated from these normalized abundances of plastic bags related items per survey.
Sometimes the survey length was null or equal to 0. Assuming that the MSFD protocol has been applied, the length has been set at 100m in these cases.
Percentiles 50, 75, 95 & 99 have been calculated taking into account plastic bags related items from MSFD data for all years.
More information is available in the attached documents.
Warning: the absence of data on the map does not necessarily mean that they do not exist, but that no information has been entered in the Marine Litter Database for this area.
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bl_plasticbags_monitoring
- Date (Creation)
- 2025-02-21T00:00:00
- Edition
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1.0
- Citation identifier
- DOI:10.13120/8407f0c1-fcae-4aaa-bbec-eb82b2c6da87
- Credit
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EMODnet Chemistry
Point of contact
Point of contact
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Thèmes Sextant
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/Human Activities/Pollution
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- Theme
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EMODnet Chemistry
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Ocean Hackathon - City and challenge
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/Boulogne-sur-Mer/BOL02
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/Boulogne-sur-Mer/BOL04
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/Boulogne-sur-Mer/BOL06
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/Bournemouth/BOR01
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/La Rochelle/LAR01
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/Peniche/PEN01
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/Boulogne-sur-Mer
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/Bournemouth
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/Brest
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/Brest/BRE10
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/Cherbourg
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/La Rochelle
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/Peniche
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/Plymouth
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/Toulon
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- Use limitation
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CC BY 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
- Access constraints
- unrestricted
- Use constraints
- Other restrictions
- Other constraints
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Usage is subject to mandatory citation: "This resource was generated in the framework of EMODnet Chemistry, under the support of DG MARE Call for Tender EASME/EMFF/2020/3.1.11/European Marine Observation and Data Network (EMODnet) - Lot 5 - Chemistry".
- Spatial representation type
- Vector
- Language
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eng
- Topic category
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- Oceans
- Description
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bounding box
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- Begin date
- 2001-01-01
- End date
- 2023-12-24
Vertical extent
- Minimum value
- 0
- Maximum value
- 0.0
- Reference system identifier
- EPSG / WGS 84 (EPSG:4326)
- Geometric object type
- Point
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Name Version
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Conformance result
- Title
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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
- Date (Publication)
- 2010-12-08
- Explanation
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See the referenced specification
- Statement
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The original datasets can be searched and downloaded from EMODnet Chemistry Chemistry CDI Data and Discovery Access Service: https://cdi-chemistry.seadatanet.org/search
Metadata
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- 8407f0c1-fcae-4aaa-bbec-eb82b2c6da87 XML
- Metadata language
- English
- Character set
- UTF8
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- Series
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Product record
- Date stamp
- 2025-04-24T14:52:53.286421Z
- Metadata standard name
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ISO 19115:2003/19139 - EMODNET - SDN
- Metadata standard version
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1.0
- Metadata author
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role EMODnet Chemistry
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