NAUTILOS - Citizen Science Plastic Litter Crete 2023-2024

This dataset includes data of plastic litter collected by citizens and students during 8 campaigns that were organised in Crete (Greece) during the period June 2023 – June 2024. The campaigns were organized within the framework of the NAUTILOS Horizon 2020 project. More specifically the number of plastic litter items per category (using the J code List of the EMODnet Chemistry Thematic Lot n°4) was recorded together with information about the location, date, surface area covered, data contributor and some environmental characteristics (sediment, weather, surroundings).