SoE2015: Main Material Types of Litter in Queensland

A 2015 dataset from the Queensland government's State of the Environment reporting describes the composition of litter. It notes that cigarette butts are the most common type of litter, despite constituting a small volume. The dataset was published by the Department of Environment, Tourism, Science and Innovation and is available under a CC-BY-4.0 license.

Use Cases

• Analyze the prevalence of different litter materials based on the described categories.
• Model the relationship between litter count and volume based on the description of cigarette butts.
• Benchmark litter composition for environmental reporting based on the State of the Environment context.

Strengths

• Explicitly states cigarette butts are the most common litter type.
• Published by a government department (Environment, Tourism, Science and Innovation) as part of official reporting.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.

Provenance

Source

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Time Range

2015

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-27 14:19:04.958585; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Queensland, Australia