SoE2020: Main material types littered

Created 05/05/2025

Updated 05/05/2025

In 2018–19, plastic items replaced cigarette butts as the most common littered items in Queensland. However, cigarette butts continue to be a significant litter load in the environment, despite contributing a very small fraction to litter volume.

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Title SoE2020: Main material types littered
Language English
Licence cc-by-4
Landing Page https://devweb.dga.links.com.au/data/dataset/62ec69fa-4c7a-4e5e-addc-be2b96be56f1
Remote Last Updated 25/09/2023
Contact Point
Environment, Tourism, Science and Innovation
OpenData@des.qld.gov.au
Reference Period 02/09/2021
Geospatial Coverage
Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors
{
  "coordinates": [
    [
      [
        96.0,
        -45.0
      ],
      [
        96.0,
        -9.0
      ],
      [
        168.0,
        -9.0
      ],
      [
        168.0,
        -45.0
      ],
      [
        96.0,
        -45.0
      ]
    ]
  ],
  "type": "Polygon"
}
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Data Source

This dataset was originally found on Queensland Government "SoE2020: Main material types littered". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://data.qld.gov.au/dataset/soe2020-main-material-types-littered