Guideline for Monitoring Marine Litter on the Beaches in the OSPAR Maritime Area
A guideline for monitoring marine litter on beaches has been developed by OSPAR as a tool to collect data on litter in the marine environment. This tool has been designed to generate data on marine litter according to a standardized methodology. The guideline has been designed in such a way that all OSPAR countries can […]
Extended Producer Responsibility: Basic Facts and Key Principles
Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) is a policy approach that makes producers responsible for their products along the entire lifecycle, including at the post-consumer stage. This policy paper summarises the current consensus on the EPR policy approach. This document synthesises the current implementing experience with the EPR policy approach to provide policymakers with knowledge on the […]
Sea to Source Method Toolkit
The purpose of this toolkit is to provide detailed steps for implementing the methodologies that were carried out during the National Geographic “Sea to Source: Ganges” river expedition (hereafter referred to as the “Sea to Source Expedition”), which set out to better understand and document the characteristics, composition, and flow of plastics in the Ganges […]
Waste Flow Diagram Toolkit
The Waste Flow Diagram toolkit is an excel-based model allowing users to perform a rapid assessment of municipal solid waste flows within a city or municipality. The tool maps these waste flows using Sankey diagrams and quantifies the plastic waste that is emitted from the solid waste management system and its eventual fate in the […]
Handbook of Survey Methodology of Plastics Leakage by CSIRO
This Handbook provides detail on the various survey methodologies used by CSIRO’s team that focus on plastic pollution on land and at sea – in upland, riverine, coastal and marine environments. We invite you to follow our methodologies in order to develop consistent, robust datasets across various geographies that can be used in understanding waste […]
NOAA Marine Debris Shoreline Survey Field Guide
Marine debris has become one of the most widespread pollution problems in the world’s oceansand waterways today. The NOAA Marine Debris Program (MDP) serves as a centralized marine debris resource within NOAA, coordinating and supporting activities within NOAA and with other federal agencies. The MDP uses partnerships to support projects carried out by state and […]