The data analytics was a slimed down version of the research section that we would use in our presentation because it would be unwise to record all our findings in a presentation, taking up space in slides and boring our audience with paragraphs of text. So by doing it this way we would prevent that.

• The street cleansing costs for Northern Ireland are £45 million annually
• 80% of marine litter is estimated to come from the land.
• 1.3 million items of litter are on our streets at any one time
• The extrapolated figures suggest that 71.4% of littered items contain plastic. That's a total of 924.043 items.
• 28 tonnes of litter are on our streets at any one time
• The Report notes that an average of 375 items of litter were observed per 100m of beach surveyed during 2020, 67% of the items recorded were made of plastic.
• On average in 2022, 762 items of litter were found per 100 metres of beach surveyed. Up from 375 items in 2020
• In total, 36,587 items of litter were found on Northern Ireland's twelve survey beaches throughout the year.