TY - DATA T1 - Dataset underlying the publication "Suitability of river plastic monitoring methods for citizen science" PY - 2025/10/09 AU - Louise Jeanne Schreyers AU - Sabrina Kirschke AU - Rose Boahemaa Pinto AU - Katrin Wendt-Pothoff AU - Lea Schmidtke AU - Christian Schmidt AU - Tim van Emmerik UR - DO - 10.4121/d109d044-0032-4e6d-9a5a-16182fb20c79.v1 KW - macroplastics KW - microplastics KW - water quality monitoring KW - Citizen Science N2 -

This dataset is associated with the peer-reviewed publication "Suitability of river plastic monitoring methods for citizen science". This scientific article can be accessed at: https://doi.org/10.1017/plc.2025.10027. The dataset includes the raw and anonymized results from a survey focusing on the suitability of river plastic monitoring methods for citizen science projects. It also includes river plastic observational data using four different methods, on both microplastic and macroplastic. The plastic observations and surveys used in the publication were undertaken at the Odaw River, in the city of Accra, Ghana.

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