Characteristics of Marine Debris Movement Pattern Using Location Tracking Buoys

Recently, marine debris, which is emerging most in the marine environment, becomes a global problem and becomes a factor of marine environmental pollution. In particular, the United Nation General Assembly adopted the Sustainable Development Goals(SDGs), the largest joint goal of the United Nations and the international community, which is to be implemented from 2016 to 2030, including the reduction of marine waste by 2025 in the detailed marine sector. Marine debris, which is emerging as an international environmental issue, is emphasized mainly by coastal countries and can be seen in domestic coasts. Accordingly, coastal debris monitoring is carried out to investigate debris on designated coasts in Korea. However, the current monitoring methods have limitations in identifying the amount and type of coastal debris by region. And when comparing the amount of inflow and collection of marine debris in Korea, the collection amount is less than half compared to the inflow amount. Therefore, it is necessary to understand the movement pattern characteristics by tracking the behavior of marine debris. In this study uses the location tracking buoys which can identify the movement characteristics of marine debris in accordance with the floating and direct influence in real-time. Therefore, GPS terminals built into objects that are shaped like marine debris, suggesting that they can track what movement patterns are characteristic of current and wind effects.