TRADE: Trash Rapid Assessment Data Exchange (ArcGIS Hub)
TRADE is a platform that standardizes community-based rapid trash assessments for MS4 stormwater monitoring, visualization, and downloadable reporting-ready datasets.
River-OSPAR Plastics Dataset: Global River Macrolitter Shapes, Sizes, and Material Properties
The River-OSPAR Plastics Dataset contains >229k litter items collected from 4 continents with mass, volume, density, dimensions, and categorization.
MPSizeBase
MPSizeBase is an open-access database of microplastic size distributions for research, standardization, and data sharing. Contribute and explore now!
Macroplastic Ingestion Mortality Database
An open-access database of >10,000 necropsies and their associated macroplastic burden ins bin marine animals with a novel risk assessment framework.
Global Plastic Policy Tool
Countries are exploring ways to reduce the impact of plastic. This tool explores different policy interventions both regionally and globally.
Plastic Prediction
A machine-learning model that predicts (rough estimates) of micro- and macro-plastic abundance in rivers prior to sampling.
Wastebase
A digital platform for crowdsourcing structured information about plastic waste that utilizes an app that scans product barcodes.
Same but Different: A Riverbank Macroplastic Monitoring Framework for Rivers
A riverbank macroplastic monitoring framework helping design and compare strategies for plastic litter monitoring along rivers to support mitigation and policy.
Framework Riverbank Plastic Monitoring Strategies
Framework to Design and Compare Riverbank Plastic Monitoring Strategies. A meta-analysis of monitoring protocols for macroplastics on riverbanks – what are some of the factors that can be altered to […]