Total mismanaged PPSI in coastal NUTS3 in 2012 and 2018, by regional sea; Sum of the mid Median estimates (items/years) in larger and smaller european catchments within marine regions; and Median of items by litter group, by regional sea

Methodology

Figure 1 and Figure 2 were developed under the methodology of the report Marine Litter in Europe - An integrated assessment from source to sea (https://forum.eionet.europa.eu/etc-icm-consortium/library/subvention-2022/tasks-and-milestones-2022/1.1.8.1-marine-litter-assessment/milestone-2-addressing-comments-eea-and-finalization-assessment-report/final-version-november-2022-eea-approval/etc-icm_marine-litter-assessment_master_v5.2_06112022_for-eea-approval)

Figure 3 was developed from the Dataset 2 (MLW 2021 assessment dataset).

Units

Figure 1: Thousand tonnes/year; Figure 2: Items/year; Figure 3: Median items per 100 m beach