Ifira Point
19 January, 2019
- Team Leader
- Chirstina Shaw
- Number of Participants
- 11
- Total Debris Collected
- 161 kgs (measured)
-17.754475875549, 168.29547746169
Survey Information
- Location Name
- Ifira Point
- Organization/Dive Centre
- Big Blue Vanuatu
- City
- Port Vila
- Country
- Vanuatu
- Date
- 19 January, 2019
- Survey Duration
- 44 Minutes
- GPS Coordinates
- Latitude: -17.754475875549
Longitude: 168.29547746169
- Weather Conditions
-
Some wind and showers
- Survey Depth Range
- 1–18 meters
- Area Surveyed
- 2200 m2
- Dominant Substrate
- sand
- Ecosystem
- coral reef
- Wave Conditions
- Smooth (wavelets) for waves 0.1 - 0.5 meter high
Debris Items Collected
| plastic materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Bags-grocery/retail (plastic) | 2 |
| Beverage Bottles: Less Than 2 Litres (plastic) | 47 |
| Bottles: Bleach/cleaner Bottles | 1 |
| Bottles: Oil/lube | 2 |
| Buckets, Drums & Jerrycans-2 Liters Or More | 1 |
| Caps & Lids (plastic) | 1 |
| Carpet (synthetic) | 1 |
| Cigarette Lighters | 1 |
| Cups, Plates, Forks, Knives, Spoons (plastic) | 21 |
| Fishing: Nets & Pieces Of Nets | 3 |
| Food Wrappers (plastic) | 109 |
| Mesh Bags: Fruit/vegetable/shellfish | 1 |
| Pipes (plastic-PVC) | 1 |
| Straws, Stirrers | 1 |
| Plastic Fragments | 378 |
| Strapping Bands (plastic) | 5 |
| Rope (plastic/nylon) | 4 |
| glass materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Cups & Plates-tableware/dishes (glass & Ceramic) | 1 |
| Glass & Ceramic Fragments | 35 |
| Beverage Bottles (glass) | 73 |
| metal materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Aerosol/spray Cans | 1 |
| Beverage Cans (aluminium) | 152 |
| Cans: Food/juice, Other (tin) | 56 |
| Caps & Lids (metal) | 2 |
| Metal Fragments | 6 |
| rubber materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Tires/tyres | 1 |
| Rubber Fragments | 1 |
| cloth materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Cloth Fragments | 3 |
| mixed materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Clothing | 5 |
| Computer Equipment & Other Electronic Devices | 3 |
| Shoes-flip Flops, Sandals, Tennis, Etc | 4 |
| Toys | 2 |
| other materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Flare | 1 |
| Disposable plastic razor | 1 |
| DVD cover plastic | 1 |
| ratchet tie down strap | 1 |
| sunglasses | 1 |
| base plate for sander | 1 |
| Cover for extractor fan | 1 |
Additional Information
The domestic wharf in Port Vila is being upgraded. However the project has stalled. As a temporary measure the domestic ships have been using a barge in the corner of the harbour very close to Ifira point beach as the temporary "wharf". Resident have notice a considerable increase in the amount of rubbish accumulating on the beach at Ifira point since this arrangement has been in place.
Flare
beverage bottles and cans
Food wrappers
boat and household rubbish
Comments and Feedback
This was part of cleanup demonstration project we completed with the Vanuatu Environmental Science Society and TierraMar under the UK Commonwealth Litter programme (CLiP). We cleaned up the beach and underwater once a week for 3 consecutive weeks to demonstrate how much rubbish is accumulating every week. A report of this project is available. Each week we collected rubbish along three 50 meter transects and calculated the amount of rubbish collected per sq m. The divers then collected some more debris from outside the transects as well. This report of rubbish collected is both the transect and out of transect data combined. This is the first week of rubbish collection. From the transects there was 311 pieces of litter 80% of it was plastic. We calculated there was 2.4 pieces of plastic every per sq meter.
