NOWPAP
National Monitoring of Marine Litter
2009
@NOWPAP member states (China, Japan, Korea and Russia) monitor marine litter quantities using
"Guidelines for Monitoring Marine Litter on the Beaches and Shorelines of the Northwest Pacific
Region" developed by CEARAC in 2007. The results of the monitoring are submitted to NOWPAP
and Ocean Conservancy and shared with the member states and all over the world.
@In 2009, NOWPAP marine litter monitoring was conducted in 82 sites.
Location of marine litter monitoring in each member state in 2008
Total number of collected marine litter is 196,596, total weight is 13,635kg.
Detail information of each monitoring site and the results in each site are shown
in this PDF file.
NOWPAP_Monitoring_2009.pdf (85.6KB)

If you install Google earth*, you can see the location of sites and results by follwing file.
NOWPAP_Marine_Litter_Monitoring_2009.kmz

@*Google earth is a free software to see the world view in your computer.
@The software is able to download in follwing site (http://earth.google.com/intl/en/).
Distribution of marine litter
(Total number of collected marine litter)
Distribution of marine litter
(Total weight of collected marine litter)
Distribution of marine litter
(number of collected marine litter/100m)
Distribution of marine litter
(weight of collected marine litter/100m)
The result in 2008 is here