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doi: 10.4121/05ba396b-90f7-460e-8f2e-b88752b1b51b

Hauk, Rahel; van der Ploeg, Martine; Teuling, Adriaan J.; de Winter, Winnie; van Emmerik, Tim (2024): Data underlying the publication: Flood induced buttertub spill reveals riverine plastic transport dynamics. Version 1. 4TU.ResearchData. dataset. https://doi.org/10.4121/05ba396b-90f7-460e-8f2e-b88752b1b51b.v1

Dataset

• Natural Hazards
• Land and Water Management
• Other Environmental Sciences
• Environmental Science and Management
• Environmental Sciences
• Environment

Climate Change, Disaster, Extreme Event, Freshwater, Macroplastic, Pollution, Riverbank, Riverine flood, Spill, Tracers, Water Quality

2021 - 2023

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by Rahel Hauk , Martine van der Ploeg , Adriaan J. Teuling , Winnie de Winter , Tim van Emmerik

During the July 2021 European floods approximately 8 million pieces of plastic dairy packaging were flushed from a severely damaged dairy processing facility located at the Vesdre river in Belgium. Some of these dairy packaging 'buttertubs' were ultimately flushed into the Meuse river and counted on riverbanks along the Dutch Meuse between July 2021 and July 2023. In addition to recording when and where they were found, some were collected for analysis on their development of mass over the two years between July 2021 - July 2023. The article attached to this dataset is called "Flood-induced buttertub spill reveals riverine plastic transport dynamics" and has the DOI 10.1186/s12302-024-00962-1. Dataset 1 contains the locations where buttertubs were found over the two years, with the location coordinates and sampled area of riverbank. Dataset 2 contains the mass analysis of the collected buttertubs before and after they were cleaned and dried. Dataset 3 contains pictures of the buttertubs analyzed for their mass prior to cleaning.

• 2024-07-30 first online, published, posted

4TU.ResearchData

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Flood-induced buttertub spill reveals riverine macroplastic transport dynamics

• The work of Tim van Emmerik is supported by the Veni research program The River Plastic Monitoring Project with project number 18211, which is (partly) funded by the Dutch Research Council (NWO).

Hydrology and Environmental Hydraulics Group, Wageningen University & Research
The North Sea Foundation, Utrecht, the Netherlands