River Plastic Emissions to the World’s Oceans

The Ocean Cleanup

Description

Interactive map displaying estimates of global river emissions of macro-plastic from the model presented in Meijer et al. 2021 based on mismanaged plastic waste generation. The dataset distributed as GIS shapefile, represents 31,819 river outfalls emitting floating macro-plastic pollution globally.  Full dataset available here: https://figshare.com/articles/dataset/Supplementary_data_for_More_than_1000_rivers_account_for_80_of_global_riverine_plsatic_emissions_into_the_ocean_/14515590

Notes

Static dataset