0ad43c29-442e-4628-9944-b0e695126846 English HELCOM Secretariat data@helcom.fi 2025-11-13T10:29:21 EPSG:3035 Beach litter on monitored sites (plastic pieces/100m) 2018-05-31 https://metadata.helcom.fi/geonetwork/srv/eng/catalog.search#/metadata/0ad43c29-442e-4628-9944-b0e695126846 Data set represents the reported beach litter items on monitoring sites at the Baltic Sea area. Data includes the sum value of items per category for each monitoring site, as an average for the whole monitoring period. Categories include: Artificial polymer materials (plastic), rubber, cloth/textile, paper/cardboard, processed/worker wood, metal, glass/ceramics and unclassified. Number of items in the data set is always in relation to a 100 m strip of beach. In Map and data service the category "plastic" is visualised. Litter data is provided by HELCOM contracting parties in response to data call for State of the Baltic sea report. NOTE: Spatial data set includes only categorised sum values of beach litter items, the link to download the spatial data can be found below. An excel file including the complete national data sets with all litter items, and all individual monitoring events, is available as a separate data set below the spatial data. Please also note that countries have used different categorisation protocols for their data, and the spatial data set is a harmonisation of these protocols, on a category level. The excel file will provide further details on what protocols have been used. NOTE: Please note that in Latvia monitoring is carried out only in the summer season and is not completely comparable with other countries that carry out monitoring seasonally. Attribute information: Country: country where the site is located Monitoring site: Name of the monitoring site Beach type: rural/urban/reference Length: Length of monitored beach Width: Width of monitored beach HELCOM sub-basin National: National description of the sub-basin HELCOM sub-basin: HELCOM sub-basin on assessment level 2 Litter categories: Artificial polymer material - unclassified: The sum of all material belonging to this category. Value is an average of all individual monitoring events. sum: The sum of all categories. Value is an average of all individual monitoring events. monitoring period: The first and last monitoring period of monitoring site HELCOM Secretariat data@helcom.fi Sea regions GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 2008-06-01 geonetwork.thesaurus.external.theme.httpinspireeceuropaeutheme-theme litter beach GEMET 2018-08-16 geonetwork.thesaurus.external.theme.gemet-en MADS Use constraints: Data can be used freely given that the source is cited Access constraints: No limitations on public access. English environment 10.943036111 27.1566120000001 53.9219166670001 64.4382033680001 2012-01-01 2016-12-31 ESRI Shapefile 1.0 https://maps.helcom.fi/website/MADS/download/?id=0ad43c29-442e-4628-9944-b0e695126846 WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link Download dataset https://maps.helcom.fi/website/mapservice/?datasetID=0ad43c29-442e-4628-9944-b0e695126846 WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link Open in Map Viewer https://maps.helcom.fi/website/download/Beach%20litter.xlsx WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download Beach litter full data set excel file Commission Regulation (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services 2010-12-08 Litter data is provided by HELCOM contracting parties in response to data call for State of the Baltic sea report (HOLAS II). Original raw data sets are included in the download. These original data sets have been further processed by the Secretariat. Data has been harmonised to enable direct comparison between countries and different protocols, on litter category level.