e78e1cef-e30b-4313-8733-c03e1a7b7b2f English ISO/IEC 8859-1 (also known as Latin 1) dataset dataset NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre Lancaster Environment Centre, Library Avenue, Bailrigg Lancaster LA1 4AP UK info@eidc.ac.uk https://eidc.ac.uk/ EIDC website The Environmental Information Data Centre (EIDC) is the UK's national data centre for terrestrial and freshwater sciences. information pointOfContact 2025-11-13T16:27:09 UK GEMINI 2.3 WGS 84 Anthropogenic litter data collected from the Portoviejo River, Ecuador, 2021-2022 2024-07-05 publication 2024-05-08 creation https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/e78e1cef-e30b-4313-8733-c03e1a7b7b2f 10.5285/e78e1cef-e30b-4313-8733-c03e1a7b7b2f doi: 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 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 Pinheiro, L. University of Exeter l.pinheiro@exeter.ac.uk https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2064-7138 ORCID record ORCID is an open, non-profit, community-driven effort to create and maintain a registry of unique researcher identifiers and a transparent method of linking research activities and outputs to these identifiers. information author Ita-Nagy, D. Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú dita@pucp.edu.pe https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2512-3731 ORCID record ORCID is an open, non-profit, community-driven effort to create and maintain a registry of unique researcher identifiers and a transparent method of linking research activities and outputs to these identifiers. information author Hidalgo, D.G. Ichthion Limited elmar.desi@gmail.com author Flor, D. University of Exeter def206@exeter.ac.uk https://orcid.org/0009-0005-3458-9276 ORCID record ORCID is an open, non-profit, community-driven effort to create and maintain a registry of unique researcher identifiers and a transparent method of linking research activities and outputs to these identifiers. information author Osorio Baquero, A. University of Exeter a.osorio-baquero@exeter.ac.uk https://orcid.org/0009-0005-8418-5704 ORCID record ORCID is an open, non-profit, community-driven effort to create and maintain a registry of unique researcher identifiers and a transparent method of linking research activities and outputs to these identifiers. information author Becerra, N. Ichthion Limited n.becerra@ichthion.com author Grønneberg, I. Ichthion Limited ig@ichthion.com https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3568-8338 ORCID record ORCID is an open, non-profit, community-driven effort to create and maintain a registry of unique researcher identifiers and a transparent method of linking research activities and outputs to these identifiers. information author Vázquez-Rowe, I. Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú ian.vazquez@pucp.edu.pe https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7469-2033 ORCID record ORCID is an open, non-profit, community-driven effort to create and maintain a registry of unique researcher identifiers and a transparent method of linking research activities and outputs to these identifiers. information author Kahhat, R. Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú ramzy.kahhat@pucp.edu.pe https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7321-2256 ORCID record ORCID is an open, non-profit, community-driven effort to create and maintain a registry of unique researcher identifiers and a transparent method of linking research activities and outputs to these identifiers. information author Lewis, C. University of Exeter c.n.lewis@exeter.ac.uk https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3564-2906 ORCID record ORCID is an open, non-profit, community-driven effort to create and maintain a registry of unique researcher identifiers and a transparent method of linking research activities and outputs to these identifiers. information author Galloway, T.S. University of Exeter t.s.galloway@exeter.ac.uk https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7466-6775 ORCID record ORCID is an open, non-profit, community-driven effort to create and maintain a registry of unique researcher identifiers and a transparent method of linking research activities and outputs to these identifiers. information author NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre info@eidc.ac.uk custodian NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre info@eidc.ac.uk publisher Pinheiro, L. University of Exeter l.pinheiro@exeter.ac.uk https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2064-7138 ORCID record ORCID is an open, non-profit, community-driven effort to create and maintain a registry of unique researcher identifiers and a transparent method of linking research activities and outputs to these identifiers. information pointOfContact University of Exeter EMAIL NOT PROVIDED owner Hydrography theme GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 2008-06-01 publication waste management watershed anthropogenic plastic waste river pollution GEMET - Concepts, version 4.1.3 2019-01-28 creation Pollution Portoviejo River Ecuador river clean-up macroplastics otherRestrictions no limitations otherRestrictions This resource is available under the terms of the Open Government Licence otherRestrictions 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 textTable 100 English utf8 inlandWaters 2021-02-01 2022-12-31 -80.589 -80.285 -1.162 -0.927 Comma-separated values (CSV) NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre info@eidc.ac.uk distributor https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/data/e78e1cef-e30b-4313-8733-c03e1a7b7b2f Download the data Download a copy of this data download https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/sd/e78e1cef-e30b-4313-8733-c03e1a7b7b2f.zip Supporting information Supporting information available to assist in re-use of this dataset information dataset dataset 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 2010-12-08 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.