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CLiP Vanuatu Land Waste Audits and Interviews

Publisher
Marine Environmental Data & Information Network
Updated
23 July 2026
Topic
Not set
Licence
Not set

Summary

This dataset contains 2 csv files. Solid_waste_audit_Vanuatu_Abundance.csv reports solid waste abundance and composition data from households and commercial activities expressed in number of items, weight or volume. Solid_waste_audit_Vanuatu_Metadata.csv reports the results of interviews done when solid waste samples were collected to gather metadata about household occupants social and behavioural metadata, including the fate of solid waste not collected through the official waste management service. Waste audits were conducted between November and December 2018 in Efate island (Port Vila, 50 samples; and the rural community of Black Sands, 35 samples), Espiritu Santo islands (Luganville and rural communities, 49 samples) and two outer islands: Lelepa (Efate, 61 samples) and Ifira (Efate, 10 samples). Commercial activities were also audited (30 in Port Vila; and 15 in Luganville). A READ-ME text file contains the description of columns content for the two csv files.

Data links

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Cefas Data Portal 23/7/2026

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Additional information

Source Metadata
XML, HTML
Date added
12 July 2024
Harvest GUID
CEFASbcac96b4-799b-4f1b-abbb-bf8253b99126
Extent (Latitude)
-10.00° to -30.00°
Extent (Longitude)
160.00° to 170.00°
Dataset reference date (publication)
2019-10-17
Dataset reference date (revision)
2024-07-12
Dataset reference date (creation)
2019-05-27
Frequency of update
notPlanned
Responsible party
Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science, Lowestoft Laboratory (CEFAS) (originator, custodian, distributor, owner); Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) (owner)
ISO 19139 resource type
dataset
Metadata language
eng