Information on your group and your sampling

Allowed formats: jpg, jpeg, png, gif, svg. The maximum file size is 2 MB. 

Please only upload your group photo if all group members gave their consent to do so. If that's not possible, you can alternatively uploada photo of your findings or your school logo.

Please enter the coordinates of your location as decimal degrees (DD, e.g. Brussels, Senne: 50.89853, 4.40344). You can find the GPS coordinates of your location by visiting the following website. After finishing the upload form, please check if your sampling was located correctly on the results map.

Waste on the riverbank

Material Transect 1 Station A Transect 1 Station B Transect 1 Station C Transect 2 Station A Transect 2 Station B Transect 2 Station C Transect 3 Station A Transect 3 Station B Transect 3 Station C Total

Variety of waste on the riverbank

Please enter here the total number of all waste objects made of single-use plastic. Other objects made of plastic do NOT belong to this category.
Please enter the total number of waste items you found (including single-use plastic).
Please enter the total weight of all waste items you have found (including plastic waste).

Floating waste

Round Distance in m Time in sec
_ Pellets Fragments Total

Larger microplastics on the riverbank

Microplastic Sampling Point 1 Sampling Point 2 Sampling Point 3 Sum

Team of reporters

Riverside visitors
Fly tippers
Industry
Agriculture
Shipping
Fishing
Heavy rain, flooding
Storm, strong winds
Heat, dryness
Group A
Group B
Group C
Extra Group

What makes me think - and inspires me to act? Write down examples of your students' answers.

Try to answer these 6 questions with your classmates.

Photos of your findings

Please upload all photos of the waste collected at the stations (Group A), the variety of waste on the riverbank (Group B) and the floating waste (Group C) together. For this purpose, all photos you upload must be in the same folder and marked at the same time.

The upload of your pictures will take some time. Please be patient and do not cancel the process prematurely.

File formats: jpg, jpeg, png, gif. The maximum file size is 2 MB per file.

To compress photographs you can use one of the free resizing programs, such as Mass Image Compressor, available at the link: https://sourceforge.net/projects/icompress/.

Unlimited number of files can be uploaded to this field.
2 MB limit.
Allowed types: gif, jpg, jpeg, png.

Original data

One photo each (JPG/PNG) / one scan (PDF) of pages 28 and 29 with all the data collected. Please upload all original data together. For this purpose, all files to be uploaded must be located in the same folder and marked simultaneously.

File formats: pdf, jpg, jpeg, png. The maximum file size is 8 MB per file.

Maximum 2 files.
8 MB limit.
Allowed types: jpeg, jpg, png, pdf.
Unlimited number of files can be uploaded to this field.
8 MB limit.
Allowed types: jpeg, jpg, png, pdf.

Contact information

Address
Please enter the address of the institution, organisation or school.
Please note that a link to publish the data will be sent to this e-mail address. The data will not be published until you have clicked on this link.

By submitting this form, I confirm that Ecologic Institute and Kiel Science Factory may collect, store and process my data for the purpose of scientific data analysis and for the public presentation of the results on the campaign website. This also includes the necessary organisational communication. The privacy policy of the "Plastic Pirates - Go Europe!" project applies.

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