Beach Litter collected in 2023-2024 by citizen science association the Proper Strand Lopers

Beach Litter count data collected across 10 beaches of the Belgian coast in 2023 and 2024 by volunteers of the citizen science association Proper Strand Lopers. One of the key indicators of abundance, composition and trends of litter in the marine environment is the amount on beaches. OSPAR monitors litter on 100m stretches at over 70 beaches in the North-East Atlantic following common monitoring guidelines. The monitoring records litter in 112 predefined litter items in 11 types: Plastic / polystyrene, Metal, Paper and cardboard, Wood, Sanitary waste, Cloth, Rubber, Glass, Pottery/ceramics, Medical waste and Faeces.

Date (Creation): 2024-09-08

Date (Revision): 2025-02-06

Date (Publication): 2025-12-03

Title: Digital Object Identifier

Date (Creation): 2016-05-19

Code: https://doi.org/10.24417/133548fd-2653-dca7-8b79-2b969c20e300

Citation identifier: http://metadata.naturalsciences.be / 133548fd-2653-dca7-8b79-2b969c20e300
Belgian Marine Data Centre

Other citation details: This dataset is composed of the following sources: (1) Francis Strobbe, Yvan Stojanov, Johnny Rymenans (2025). Beach Litter web application. (2) Senne Aertbeliën, Alex Vandenbrouck (n.d.). Beach litter data.

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Organisation name	Electronic mail address	Role
Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences (RBINS)	info@naturalsciences.be	Owner
Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences (RBINS), Directorate Natural Environment (OD Nature), Belgian Marine Data Centre (BMDC)	bmdc@naturalsciences.be	Custodian
Royal Belgian Institute for Natural Sciences (RBINS), Directorate Natural Environment (OD Nature), Belgian Marine Data Centre (BMDC)	bmdc@naturalsciences.be	Author
Proper Strand Lopers	alex@properstrandlopers.be	Author
Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences (RBINS)	info@naturalsciences.be	Publisher
Federal Public Service Health, Food chain safety and Environment - DG Environment, Marine Environment Service	info@health.fgov.be	Owner

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Reporting INSPIRE
Federal government

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Language: English

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Oceans

Extent type code: Yes

Title: Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee (VLIZ)

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Code: Belgian Coast

gml32:beginPosition: 2023-02-28

gml32:endPosition: 2024-12-14

Reference system identifier: http://www.opengis.net/def/crs/EPSG/0/4258

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Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences (RBINS), Directorate Natural Environment (OD Nature), Belgian Marine Data Centre (BMDC)		bmdc@naturalsciences.be	Custodian

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Protocol	Linkage	Name
WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link	https://dataviz.naturalsciences.be/dashboard/bl/	Beach Litter web application. Francis Strobbe, Yvan Stojanov, Johnny Rymenans

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Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences (RBINS), Directorate Natural Environment (OD Nature), Belgian Marine Data Centre (BMDC)		bmdc@naturalsciences.be	Custodian

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OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download	https://opendata.naturalsciences.be/data/release/v1/beachlitterreport/csv/accepted/survey/133548FD-2653-DCA7-8B79-2B969C20E300	Beach litter data. Senne Aertbeliën, Alex Vandenbrouck

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DOI	https://doi.org/10.24417/133548fd-2653-dca7-8b79-2b969c20e300	Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

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Conformance result

Title: 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

Date (Publication): 2010-12-08

Explanation: See the referenced specification

Pass: Yes

Statement: Volunteers clean a defined area of 100 metres in 10 beach municipalities on the Belgian coast four times a year, and meticulously record what has been cleared. Macrolitter items are identified based on the Joint List of Litter Categories for Marine Macrolitter Monitoring.

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File identifier: 133548fd-2653-dca7-8b79-2b969c20e300 XML

Metadata language: English

Character set: UTF8

Hierarchy level: Dataset

Date stamp: 2025-12-03T16:08:31.359+01:00

Metadata standard name: Geographic information -- Metadata

Metadata standard version: ISO 19115:2003/19139

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Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences (RBINS), Directorate Natural Environment (OD Nature), Belgian Marine Data Centre (BMDC)		bmdc@naturalsciences.be	Point of contact

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