Flor, D.; Osorio-Baquero, A.; Pinheiro, L.M.; Galloway, T.

Packaging data on the most sold products in grocery shops in Santa Cruz Island, Galápagos, 2023

https://doi.org/10.5285/f2e7292f-d36d-4f1f-aa70-2f76ce9dea11
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This dataset presents information on the most sold products in sampled grocery shops in Santa Cruz island, Galápagos. Data were collected in July and August 2023, from 13 grocery shops, including small, medium and large shops, as well as open markets. The dataset includes product name, manufacture location, manufacture date, product weight, type and weight of packaging and polymer type. The data were collected to explore alternatives for reducing inland plastic waste through a circular economy approach. This work is part of a NERC funded project (NE/V005448/1), that aims to reduce plastic in the Galápagos Islands and the Eastern Pacific.
Publication date: 2026-05-15

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Comma-separated values (CSV)

Spatial information

Study area
Spatial representation type
Tabular (text)
Spatial reference system
WGS 84

Temporal information

Temporal extent
2023-07-23    to    2023-08-04

Provenance & quality

The products sampled were the 20 most sold products in each grocery shops (where available). Grocery shops were randomly selected based on population count categories in the island (low, medium low, medium and high). The sampling design aimed to include two shops per population count category and was complemented with additional sampling from large supermarkets and open-market stalls.

Products were bought and data were recorded. Each product was weighted, packaging was removed and weighted separately. Packaging components were then stored in labelled bags and analysed at the University of Exeter laboratory using two instruments: Spectrum Two PerkinElmer Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectrometer with an attenuated total reflection (ATR) (measuring in a wavelength range from 650 to 4000 to cm-1 and a resolution 4cm-1) and a portable plastic identification device (PlasTell NIR plastics scanner, desktop version, Matoha Instrumentation Ltd.) equipped with a transmittance-reflectance NIR spectroscopy, 1550-1950 nm - 2NIR lamps built-in. In total 127 products were analysed. Data were initially recorded in field notebooks and subsequently digitized into an Excel database, where they were reviewed and standardized.

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This dataset is available under the terms of the Open Government Licence

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Flor, D.; Osorio-Baquero, A.; Pinheiro, L.M.; Galloway, T. (2026). Packaging data on the most sold products in grocery shops in Santa Cruz Island, Galápagos, 2023. NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre. https://doi.org/10.5285/f2e7292f-d36d-4f1f-aa70-2f76ce9dea11

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Correspondence/contact details

Daniela Flor
University of Exeter
 def206@exeter.ac.uk

Authors

Flor, D.
University of Exeter
https://orcid.org/0009-0005-3458-9276
Osorio-Baquero, A.
University of Exeter
Pinheiro, L.M.
University of Exeter
Galloway, T.
University of Exeter

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Publisher
NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre
 info@eidc.ac.uk
Rights holder
University of Exeter

Additional metadata

Topic categories
environment
INSPIRE theme
Human Health and Safety
Keywords
Environmental survey , Packaging , Plastic , Polymer , Product
Funding
Natural Environment Research Council Award: NE/V005448/1