London meeting July 2024

London meeting July 2024

Members of the project team from all countries met at Imperial College London on 3-4 July to discuss progress, priorities and plans for impact for the final months of the project. We had two days of very productive meetings and managed to fit in a bit of sightseeing...
Training workshop at the University of Peradeniya

Training workshop at the University of Peradeniya

Drs Mojith Ariyaratne and Anurudha Karunaratne, together with Ms Hansani Aruppala from the Sri Lanka Ministry of Environment, led a training event at the Mahailluppallama campus of the University of Peradeniya on 22 February 2024. The workshop, entitled Smart...
UK partners meeting Birmingham

UK partners meeting Birmingham

Team members from the universities of Bangor, Bristol and Reading attended a meeting of the UK partners on the plastics project in Birmingham on 4 February 2024. The aim of the meeting was to summarise project progress to date and to discuss directions for future...
China meeting January 2024

China meeting January 2024

Chinese partners in the project recently held a workshop to discuss soil plastic pollution in farmland and project progress at CAU’s School of Resources and Environmental Science. The meeting was jointly organized by the School of Resources and Environmental...
New Australian site

New Australian site

The mulch film degradation experiment has been replicated at Murdoch University, Perth, Australia using the same films used in the common experiment, plus some films of known composition created at Murdoch. The experiment will focus on above- and below-ground...