{"id":13003,"date":"2021-09-21T14:01:20","date_gmt":"2021-09-21T13:01:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.gov.scot\/marine-scotland\/?p=13003"},"modified":"2021-09-21T14:01:20","modified_gmt":"2021-09-21T13:01:20","slug":"monitoring-plastic-beach-litter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.gov.scot\/marine-scotland\/2021\/09\/21\/monitoring-plastic-beach-litter\/","title":{"rendered":"Monitoring plastic beach litter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Beaches in the north east of Scotland were up to six times cleaner between 2019 and 2020 compared to previous surveys in the area, a new scientific paper has found.<\/p>\n<p>The publication by scientists in the Marine Scotland directorate of the Scottish Government and Saltwater Life analysed the sizes and weight of plastic collected at surveys across 10 beaches to increase understanding of the sources of the litter.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_13005\" style=\"width: 475px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.gov.scot\/marine-scotland\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2021\/09\/Collecting-in-the-pouring-rain-e1632225053113.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13005\" class=\"wp-image-13005 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/blogs.gov.scot\/marine-scotland\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2021\/09\/Collecting-in-the-pouring-rain-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Collector showing bag of beach litter\" width=\"465\" height=\"349\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 465px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 465\/349;\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-13005\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Despite the weather the survey must go on.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The research used simple models to improve knowledge of how plastic items which break up at sea through fragmentation can end up on our beaches, as well as reviewing the weights of plastic items, which is different to usual methods of counting the number of litter items collected. It also considers the need to standardise monitoring programs so data can be compared and assessed between regions.<\/p>\n<p>The surveys, which were carried out between September 2019 and August 2020 in areas ranging from Nairn to Aberdeen, collected 1,618 items, weighing 25,797g with 86.6% of that total being plastic. The paper, published in Frontiers of Marine Science<strong>, <\/strong>reported a median 15 litter items per 100m\u00a0across the surveys, which is below the new Convention for the Protection of the Marine Environment of the North-East Atlantic (OSPAR) threshold of 20 litter items per 100m. It was also six times lower than a previous study of 222 surveys in the same area in 2017 which recorded a median 120 litter items per 100m.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_13010\" style=\"width: 390px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.gov.scot\/marine-scotland\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2021\/09\/Laying-out-litter-ready-to-be-cleaned-and-weighed-2-e1632224894232.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13010\" class=\"wp-image-13010 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/blogs.gov.scot\/marine-scotland\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2021\/09\/Laying-out-litter-ready-to-be-cleaned-and-weighed-2-300x172.jpg\" alt=\"Laying out litter ready to be cleaned and weighed\" width=\"380\" height=\"218\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 380px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 380\/218;\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-13010\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Laying out litter ready to be cleaned and weighed<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_13008\" style=\"width: 385px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.gov.scot\/marine-scotland\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2021\/09\/Rope-at-Rattray.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13008\" class=\"wp-image-13008 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/blogs.gov.scot\/marine-scotland\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2021\/09\/Rope-at-Rattray-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Discarded ropes on beach\" width=\"375\" height=\"281\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.gov.scot\/marine-scotland\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2021\/09\/Rope-at-Rattray-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.gov.scot\/marine-scotland\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2021\/09\/Rope-at-Rattray-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.gov.scot\/marine-scotland\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2021\/09\/Rope-at-Rattray-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.gov.scot\/marine-scotland\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2021\/09\/Rope-at-Rattray-683x512.jpg 683w, https:\/\/blogs.gov.scot\/marine-scotland\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2021\/09\/Rope-at-Rattray-560x420.jpg 560w, https:\/\/blogs.gov.scot\/marine-scotland\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2021\/09\/Rope-at-Rattray.jpg 2048w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 375px) 100vw, 375px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 375px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 375\/281;\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-13008\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rope on the beach at Rattray Bay<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Co-author Dr Bill Turrell said: \u201cThe study which is part of the Scottish Government\u2019s marine litter research programme, showed that instead of just counting litter, weighing litter can provide better evidence of the impact of marine plastics in an area.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLess public littering over the Coronavirus pandemic could have also contributed to our finding that beaches in the north east of Scotland were up to six times cleaner than previous surveys.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe findings will help to provide a more standardised process for analysing litter so that governments, industry and communities can better understand the marine litter problem, and how best to tackle it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Further information <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/journal.frontiersin.org\/article\/10.3389\/fmars.2021.702570\/full?&amp;utm_source=Email_to_authors_&amp;utm_medium=Email&amp;utm_content=T1_11.5e1_author&amp;utm_campaign=Email_publication&amp;field=&amp;journalName=Frontiers_in_Marine_Science&amp;id=702570\">Monitoring plastic beach litter by number or by weight: the implications of fragmentation<\/a>, by Lauren Smith, William Richard Turrell, published in Frontiers in Marine Science, section Marine Pollution.<\/p>\n<p>Information about Scottish Government support for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.scot\/policies\/marine-environment\/marine-litter\/\">marine litter.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beaches in the north east of Scotland were up to six times cleaner between 2019 and 2020 compared to previous surveys in the area, a new scientific paper has found.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":605,"featured_media":13010,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,15,8,19,1605],"tags":[144,53,151,1610],"class_list":["post-13003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-collaboration","category-mss","category-marine-litter","category-publications","category-recycling-week","tag-beach","tag-ecological-monitoring","tag-marine-litter","tag-recycling-week"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - 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