Data for: Legacy community science data suggest reduced beached litter in response to a container deposit scheme at a local scale
Data files
Sep 11, 2023 version files 15.08 MB
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dataFilesForRoses.zip
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Ecobarg_2022_data.csv
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ecobarg_event_data.csv
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README.md
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Abstract
Marine debris is causing significant environmental harm. Legislation is being implemented to reduce litter, including schemes like container deposit legislation that incentivize the return of commonly littered items for recycling. While there is a suggestion that these schemes reduce litter, no study has examined the long-term impact on the local environment before and after implementation. This study analyzes community science data from 8 years prior to the implementation of a container deposit scheme, paired with 3 years of data afterwards, to assess the scheme's effectiveness at a local scale. Although using legacy datasets limits the generalizability of the conclusions compared to dedicated studies, the findings strongly indicate that container deposit schemes effectively manage targeted containers but have little impact on overall waste abundances. Long-term datasets like these are invaluable for assessing the impact of management efforts.
This bundle contains all data needed to replicate the anslysis from the short communication "Legacy community science data suggest reduced beached litter in response to a container deposit scheme at a local scale". The work published in Marine Pollution Bulletin Oct 2023 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpolbul.2023.115471.
Description of the data and file structure
There are two sets of analyses in this data bundle.
First, wind and current roses for data in the Whitsunday region.
The code "Roses_R1.R" relies on the function "WindRose_f.R"
"Roses_R1.R" is the script used to create wind and current roses for Figure 1 in the manuscript.
The input files for these are available in the zip file "dataFilesForRoses.zip"
In that zip folder are:
"BowenAirport_wind.txt" - a comma-separated values of 30 min wind speed and direction
"IMOS_aggregation_20230731T055220Z.zip" - an archive file containing current data files.
1. "IMOS_-_OceanCurrent_-_gridded_sea_level_anomaly_-_Delayed_mode_-_DM02.xml" - metadata for the altimetry data
2. "IMOS_aggregation_20230731T055220Z.nc" - netCDF file containing ocean altimetry including u and v components of current
3. "request.xml" - details of the request to the Australian Ocean Data Network https://portal\.aodn\.org\.au/
Sharing/Access information
This is a section for linking to other ways to access the data, and for linking to sources the data is derived from, if any.
Links to other publicly accessible locations of the data:
- Critchell, Kay; Edge, Libby; Traurig, Michael J. (2023), Legacy community science data suggest reduced beached litter in response to a container deposit scheme at a local scale, Marine Pollution Bulletin, Journal-article, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpolbul.2023.115471
- Critchell, Kay; Edge, Libby; Traurig, Micheal J. (2023), Data for: Legacy community science data suggest reduced beached litter in response to a container deposit scheme at a local scale, , Article, https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8267646