The ‘Marine LitterWatch’ is a project developed by the European Environment Agency (EEA its acronym in English) using a mobile app and the main objective is to adopt “a uniform methodology for the quantification of marine litter in European beaches,” he said today the agency Lusa Isabel Raposo Palma, the Marine Debris Portuguese Association (APLM).
This organization, linked to the Faculty of Science and Technology (FCT) of the New University of Lisbon, is a Portuguese partner for the ‘Marine LitterWatch’ and is promoting the use of this instrument between Non Governmental Organisations (NGOs) and groups of citizens who will performing beach cleaning actions and the coast.
The information gathered, and similarly treated, will facilitate knowledge of what is happening on the beaches European in terms of the coast pollution, found quantities and more frequent materials such as plastic, bottles, cigarette ends or swabs, comparing the situation between different parts of a country and between countries, and allows analyzing the evolution in the coming years.
“Anyone can use the application,” said the researcher FCT Isabel Raposo Palma, advancing the example of an NGO planned a beach cleanup, and can make data collection with the registration of action, characterization and beach location and date.
The tool generates code that will be provided to participants of the action and the instrument itself has a list of common types of litter on beaches.
As we are finding waste, “participants can go recording simply items that caught” by specifying what type of material, the researcher explained.
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