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Title
Riverine Litter Monitoring - Options and Recommendations
Title (original)
Riverine Litter Monitoring - Options and Recommendations
Description
This technical report compiles the options for monitoring of riverine litter and quantification of litter fluxes, focusing on the monitoring of anthropogenic litter. Current scientific and technical background regarding litter in river systems, their flow regime and basic properties is also included. The document is intended to provide first recommendations for monitoring approaches and methodologies. It also provide indications on the issues which need to be further developed in a collaborative approach. An extensive literature review has been performed in order to identify the existing options for the monitoring of litter items in rivers. Different monitoring methods are used in three environmental compartments: River water surface can be monitored by visual observation and image acquisition; monitoring in the river water body can include the use of retaining structures and sampling using grids, nets and filtration systems (with different mesh sizes and openings) at different water depths; and river bank monitoring, comprises the observation and eventual collection of litter items. Methodologies are described and technical details are reported whenever available.
Authors
GONZALEZ FERNANDEZ DANIEL; HANKE Georg; TWEEHUYSEN Gijsbert; BELLERT Bert; HOLZHAUER Marloes; PALATINUS Andreja; HOHENBLUM Philipp; OOSTERBAAN Lex
Publication year
2016
Resource type
Protocols / guidelines
Language
English
Areas of knowledge
Waste prevention & management from land-based sources
Monitoring of marine litter
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2

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