Online Portal for Marine Litter

Online Portal for Marine Litter

Researchers at Germany’s Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI) have compiled all available scientific data on marine litter in a single database accessible from the online portal AWI Litterbase at http://litterbase.awi.de/.

This AWI Litterbase summarises results from 1,237 scientific studies in global maps and figures to open scientific knowledge on marine litter to the general public.