0202410171055
Tthe Australian Marine Debris Initiative Description: Tangaroa Blue Foundation is an Australian registered charity focused on the health of our marine environment which coordinates the Australian Marine Debris Initiative (AMDI), an on-ground network of volunteers, communities, organisations and agencies around the country monitoring the impacts of marine debris along their stretch of coastline.
STARDIT ID:
Since the AMDI program started in 2004, more than 24 million pieces of marine debris have been removed from the Australian coastline and data on this collated and input into the AMDI Database.
Tangaroa Blue Foundation can provide support to communities, organisations, agencies and schools including training, clean-up materials and logistical support, educational resources and analysis of the debris they are finding. This feedback has provided valuable data on the types and amounts of marine debris impacting sections of coast and also resulted in communities having real on-ground success stories in the reduction of marine debris impacting their site.STARDIT ID:
0202410171055
Dates
State ongoing
Start 2004-01-01
Form updated 2024-10-29
Report authors
Jack Nunn
0000-0003-0316-3254
Checked report as part of project 'Improving Citizen Science to Benefit Society: A Discussion Paper' -https://stardit.wikimedia.org.au/wiki/020240722
0000-0003-0316-3254
Checked report as part of project 'Improving Citizen Science to Benefit Society: A Discussion Paper' -https://stardit.wikimedia.org.au/wiki/020240722
Location
Australia
Aims
Remove rubbish from the envirionment
Stop rubbish from ending up in the environment
Reduce the amount of waste produced
Category
other
Inputs
organisation
Tangaroa Blue Foundation
Task: Coordinating organization
organisation
More than 2000 partners have contributed to the work of the initiative (link)
Task: Support - specifics unknown
Outputs and impacts
dataset (open)
Database of marine waste (link)
Accessibility (URL): https://tangaroablue.org/database/
Impact: Database over marine litter in Australia made publicly available
learning item
Standardised methodology for reporting marine littering, including teaching materials to use methodology
Impact: Standardized methodology made available enabling building of database
Learning: Standardised methodology for reporting marine littering, including teaching materials to use methodology
change
Multiple environmental impacts mobilized and recorded by the Australian Marine Debris Initiative (link)
Impact: 4751 clean-up sites | 260,004 volunteers | 1968 tonnes marine litter removed | 27,350,275 items removed | 1,511,712 volunteer hours | 38705 clean-up drives | 2048 partners
Measurement: Measured using AMDI database
Contributors: AMDI methodology