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updated activity categories in notebook
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"## Debris Organized by Activity 2013-2023\n",
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"In NOAA's marine debris report they organized marine debris by the activities **Various**, **Eating & Drinking**, **Smoking**, **Personal Hygiene**, **Recreation**, and **Dumping and Disaster** (Figure 10 in report). Here the graph is recreated but with SOS data only, and by substituting the pie chart for a (in my opinion) a more easily interpretable bar chart. Activity names are sligthy modified to Various, Eating/Drinking, Smoking, Hygiene, Recreation and Dumping/Disaster."
"In [NOAA's marine debris report](https://marinedebris.noaa.gov/other-reports/marine-debris-shoreline-monterey-bay-national-marine-sanctuary-assessment-behaviors-contributing-marine-debris-categories-composition-spatial-distribution-and-predictor-variables), in Section 3, trash is organized into the following activities:\n",
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"* **Eating & Drinking:** Trash categories associated with eating and drinking include utensils and plates, take-out food containers, bottles, straws, and wrappers.\n",
"* **Smoking:** Trash left behind from smoking cigarettes, cigars, and vaping included butts, packaging, containers, and other smoking items.\n",
"* **Personal Hygiene:** Items include any personal protective or sanitary products such as masks, gloves, condoms, tampons, diapers and syringes.\n",
"* **Recreation:** Items associated with recreation on the beach or elsewhere (other than fishing) include balloons, toys, clothing, and dog waste bags.\n",
"* **Dumping and Disaster:** Industrial and household waste dumping includes trash that may originate from unintentional or illegal dumping. This category also includes items resulting from storm damage, coastal erosion, or degrading harbors. Items include appliances, construction\n",
"material, and tires.\n",
"* **Various:** Trash that could have originated from any one of the other six activities but could not be identified with a more specific activity. Examples include packaging, bottles that may not have contained beverages, and fragmented pieces of plastic, glass, or metal.\n",
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"Here, Figure 10 in Section 3 of NOAA's report is recreated with SOS data only. The pie chart in the report is replaced with a bar chart for (in my opinion) more easily interpretable results. Activity names are sligthy modified to **Eating/Drinking**, **Smoking**, **Hygiene**, **Recreation**, **Dumping/Disaster** and **Various**."
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"The Various category contains items that could not be attributed to any of the other activites, e.g. pieces of plastic, glass and paper, and bottles and caps that could not be identified as containing beverages.\n",
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"Smoking contributed to the most marine debris of all the recognizable activites (not including Various), and the vast majority of Smoking items were cigarette butts. In fact, there were more cigarette butts than all the Eating/Drinking items combined, despite the fact that only about 10% of Californians smoke, but we all eat and drink."
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