Seasonal and geographic variations of marine litter: a comprehensive study from the island of Cyprus - The Dataset

These data were collected under the project MarLitCy "Marine Litter for Synergies, Capacity-building and Peacebuilding". The MarlitCy Project is funded by the European Union under the Cypriot Civil Society in Action VI grant scheme. The data have also been submitted as official data for the Cyprus for the MSFD.

This dataset includes marine litter data collected from 20 beaches around the island of Cyprus, in the Mediterranean. The beaches were monitored over four monitoring sessions, from January to September 2021, to assess marine litter amounts, categories and spatiotemporal distribution.

Keywords

marine litter, clean-up, beach litter, marine debris, Cyprus, plastics, Mediterranean

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