University of Ferrara, Via Saragat, Ferrara, Italy.
Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Sassari, Via Roma, Sassari, Italy.
Mar Pollut Bull. 2022 Jan;174:113170. doi: 10.1016/j.marpolbul.2021.113170. Epub 2021 Dec 1.
Our study provides a first dataset on marine litter collected at five pocket beaches situated in the northern Sardinia (Italy). The monitoring method refers to the operational guidelines for rapid beach assessment of beach waste described by UNEP. We classified the 7975 items collected according to the eight categories and 99 types. Their analysis indicates that plastic is the most common litter category and, plastic fragments are the most frequent debris. The density ranges from 0.05 to 2.82 item/m. The top 10 highly present marine litter reveals that land-based litter is the main source, probably due to the lack of waste management, massive tourism and recreational activities. In addition, landscape morphology affects the redistribution of marine litter. Overall, these first results are part of a wider study on the presence of marine litter in the pocket beaches of north Sardinia to provide coastal managers and policy makers mitigation strategies.
我们的研究提供了第一个在意大利撒丁岛北部五个口袋海滩收集的海洋垃圾数据集。监测方法参考了环境署描述的海滩废物快速评估的操作指南。我们根据八大类和九十九个小类对收集到的 7975 个物品进行了分类。分析表明，塑料是最常见的垃圾类别，而塑料碎片是最常见的碎片。密度范围从 0.05 到 2.82 个/米。前 10 种高度存在的海洋垃圾表明，陆源垃圾是主要来源，可能是由于缺乏废物管理、大规模旅游和娱乐活动造成的。此外，景观形态影响海洋垃圾的再分布。总的来说，这些初步结果是对撒丁岛北部口袋海滩海洋垃圾存在情况的更广泛研究的一部分，旨在为沿海管理人员和决策者提供缓解策略。
