for efforts such as Australian Packaging Covenant) Improved ability to conduct source reduction planning 5.02 Maintain a national database for long term marine debris Department of the Central data reporting beach survey data Environment and High priority/within An accessible information through the of Living and promote Energy / NESP 1 year of the TAP repository for marine debris Australia for all agencies standard working with the entering into effect data or groups that would like methodologies for of Living to provide input. collecting and Australia ongoing monitoring of beach clean-up debris Improved ability to conduct 5.03 Enhanced Long term datasets on Department of source reduction planning collection of data ghost net retrievals from Environment and in relation to nets related to ghost net Commonwealth waters Energy working Ongoing for the retrievals from across northern Australia, with Australian life of the plan Assistance with Commonwealth including data on the Government and identification of waters across presence of entangled charter vessel accumulation for ghost northern Australia threatened species. operators nets 5.04 Continue to Publicly available, long Comprehensive Australian monitor persistent term data indicates trends Community, High priority data included in organic pollutant in persistent organic Australian, state for the International Pellet Watch using plastic resin pollutant levels in plastic and territory life of the TAP dataset pellets from resin pellets from government (www.pelletwatch.org) Australian beaches Australian beaches Actions for Objective 5. (Monitor the quantities, origins and hazardous chemical contaminants of marine debris and assess the effectiveness of management arrangements over time for the strategic reduction of debris) Action Priority/ Outcome Output Responsibility timeframe
for efforts such as Australian Packaging Covenant) Improved ability to conduct source reduction planning 5.02 Maintain a national database for long term marine debris beach survey data and promote standard methodologies for collecting and ongoing monitoring of beach clean-up debris High priority/within 1 year of the TAP entering into effect An accessible information repository for marine debris data Central data reporting through the of Living Australia for all agencies or groups that would like to provide input. Department of the Environment and Energy / NESP working with the of Living Australia 5.03 Enhanced collection of data related to ghost net retrievals from Commonwealth waters across northern Australia Ongoing for the life of the plan Improved ability to conduct source reduction planning in relation to nets Assistance with identification of accumulation for ghost nets Long term datasets on ghost net retrievals from Commonwealth waters across northern Australia, including data on the presence of entangled threatened species. Department of Environment and Energy working with Australian Government and charter vessel operators 5.04 Continue to monitor persistent organic pollutant using plastic resin pellets from Australian beaches High priority for the life of the TAP Publicly available, long term data indicates trends in persistent organic pollutant levels in plastic resin pellets from Australian beaches Comprehensive Australian data included in International Pellet Watch dataset (www.pelletwatch.org) Community, Australian, state and territory government Actions for Objective 5. (Monitor the quantities, origins and hazardous chemical contaminants of marine debris and assess the effectiveness of management arrangements over time for the strategic reduction of debris) Action Priority/ timeframe Outcome Output Responsibility
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