RT journal article
T1 Beach litter composition and distribution on the Atlantic coast of Cádiz (SW Spain)
A1 Asensio-Montesinos, Francisco
A1 Anfuso Melfi, Giorgio
A1 Oliva Ramírez, Milagrosa
A1 Smolka, Rainer
A1 García Sanabria, Javier
A1 Fernández Enríquez, Alfredo
A1 Arenas Granados, Pedro Jesús
A1 Macías Bedoya, Ana María
A2 Ciencias de la Tierra
K1 Morphodynamic state
K1 Beach typology
K1 Plastic Andalusia
AB A total amount of 16,123 beach litter items, appertaining to 120 litter groups, was identified at 40 bathing areas along the coast of Cádiz, Spain. Selected areas covered remote (5), rural (11), village (13) and urban (11) sites with different morphodynamic states. The observer recorded litter data along 100 m (longshore) coastal sectors, cross-shore extended from the shoreline up to the landward limit ofthe beach. Litter was quantified at the low tide water level (where 2.1% of the total litter amount was recorded), along the foreshore (7.8%), at the high tide water level (64.2%) and backshore area (25.8%). Litter was dominated by plastics and cloth, related to the activity of beachgoers and wastewater discharges at places close to rivers and tidal creeks mouths. Specific location and morphodynamic characteristics of each site, number of users and clean-up operations were important factors thatdetermined the content of beach litter.
PB Elsevier
SN 2352-4855
YR 2020
FD 2020
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10498/30838
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10498/30838
LA eng
DS Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Cádiz
RD 05-nov-2026