MLAP
Platform

Knowledge and
resource library

Essential knowledge and guidance on marine litter in one place: legislation and regulation, international conventions, technical guidelines and policy documents.

Example selection: the documents below are public reference material chosen for the prototype; the library is completed with the platform's own guidance at launch.

2 documents listed

  • Best Practice Framework for the Management of Fishing Gear

    Guidance for fisheries, ports and authorities on preventing gear loss, reporting and retrieving abandoned gear safely, and routing recovered material to recycling.

    Open source
    Guidelines and technical resourcesGlobal Ghost Gear Initiative2021 · English

  • UNEP/IOC Guidelines on Survey and Monitoring of Marine Litter

    Field methods for recording beach, floating and seabed litter in a standard format: survey design, sampling, count sheets and the classification categories used to compare sites.

    Open source
    Guidelines and technical resourcesUNEP / IOC-UNESCO2009 · English

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