CLiP South Africa Marine Litter Accumulation Study (Cefas-UKZN) 2019 dataset https://portal.medin.org.uk/portal/start.php?tpc=009_CEFAS82d442b5-97a6-42a6-87b0-fa969ab9c3ac This dataset contains 2 csv files. The file South_Africa_Marine_Litter_Data.csv contains data on marine litter found during beach surveys in Umhlanga (north of Durban) and Amanzimtoti (south of Durban) in South Africa in September 2019. The number of items and the weight in kg is reported for each litter category. Each survey is named with the name of the location plus a capital letter between A and L for Amanzimtoti; and between A and K for Umhlanga. The capital letter indicates the order of the returning surveys at the same site. The list of item categories was obtain merging OSPAR and Tangaroa Blue protocols with the addition of region-specific items. Item categories marked with '*' were added during the operations in South Pacific, item categories marked with '**' were added during the operations in Belize, and item categories marked with '***' were added during the operations in South Africa. An array of metadata (location names, survey date, GPS coordinates in decimal degrees) is also reported per each data point. The file South_Africa_Marine_Litter_Metadata.csv reports other metadata collected during the surveys following the OSPAR protocol to describe factors potentially influencing litter characteristics. A READ-ME text file contains a legend of the columns of the csv files. 20200131 20200121