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Supporting Data for: Tracking Marine Plastic Pollution: GPS-tagged plastic bottles highlight important transboundary plastic pollution pathways in Southeast Asia
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Researchers released GPS tracking data from plastic bottles deployed across Southeast Asian waterways to map transboundary pollution pathways, providing empirical drift trajectories that reveal how marine plastic crosses national boundaries in the region.
This Dataset contains the raw and processed GPS data from GPS-tagged bottles released as part of the Risks and Solutions to Plastic Pollution in Southeast Asia (RASP-SEA) project. As referred to in the following publication: "Tracking Marine Plastic Pollution: GPS-tagged plastic bottles highlight important transboundary plastic pollution pathways in Southeast Asia".
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