Beach litter in three South American countries: a baseline for restarting monitoring and cleaning after COVID-19 closure

dc.creatorBotero, C.M.
dc.creatorPalacios, M.A.
dc.creatorSouza Filho, J.R.
dc.creatorMilanés Batista, Celene
dc.date2023-09-13T14:21:09Z
dc.date2025
dc.date2023-09-13T14:21:09Z
dc.date2023
dc.date.accessioned2023-10-03T19:49:10Z
dc.date.available2023-10-03T19:49:10Z
dc.identifierC.M. Botero, M.A. Palacios, J.R. Souza Filho, C.B. Milanes, Beach litter in three South American countries: A baseline for restarting monitoring and cleaning after COVID-19 closure, Marine Pollution Bulletin, Volume 191, 2023, 114915, ISSN 0025-326X, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpolbul.2023.114915.
dc.identifier0025-326X
dc.identifierhttps://hdl.handle.net/11323/10484
dc.identifier10.1016/j.marpolbul.2023.114915
dc.identifier1879-3363
dc.identifierCorporación Universidad de la Costa
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dc.identifier.urihttps://repositorioslatinoamericanos.uchile.cl/handle/2250/9172333
dc.descriptionThe COVID-19 pandemic caused that most countries established the closure of many beaches, affecting the scientific monitoring of thousands of coastal sectors. This article shows the status of beach litter in South America before and after COVID-19 closure. The data were obtained during the years 2019, 2020 and 2022 on 25 beaches using a technique BLAT-QQ. The results show that cigarette butts were the most frequent type of litter, meanwhile Brazil should improve cleanliness of general gross litter and gross polystyrene. Colombia gross vegetation litter and small vegetation litter, and Ecuador organic litter from animals. The results shown in qualitative and quantitative manner facilitate their understanding for managers, scholars and activists interested on beach litter monitoring. This baseline is useful to analyse regional and worldwide marine litter trends with the purpose to start or restart monitoring of tourist beaches from a science-based method.
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dc.subjectBeach cleaning
dc.subjectVegetation litter
dc.subjectLatin America
dc.subjectProplayas network
dc.subjectWaste management
dc.titleBeach litter in three South American countries: a baseline for restarting monitoring and cleaning after COVID-19 closure
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