Conference and final project partner meeting in Sri Lanka
On 13 February 2025, the Sri Lanka team at the Universities of Peradeniya and Sri Jayewardenepura organised an International Conference on Microplastic, Nanoplastic and Human Health. This was attended by project staff from partner institutions as well as...
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
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
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
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 Science...
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...
WP4 workshop in Vietnam
A workshop to discuss initial research results from Work Package 4 exploring farmers’ perceptions of agriplastic use and removal from the soil was held in Hanoi, Vietnam, hosted by the Soils and Fertilizers Research Institute and the Institute of Agricultural...
January 2023 – Technician of the month
Congratulations to Martine Graf, who is EGU’s technician of the month for January!
December 2022
The first international meeting for all partners will take place in Hanoi in February 2023.
September 2022
A second visit to Egypt for Henny Osbahr and Mondira Bhattacharya to follow up on progress with the farmer survey work.
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Our article with video about extracting microplastics in soils and polymer type identification is now online in JoVE.https://app.jove.com/t/67064/separation-identification-conventional-microplastics-from-farmland
Happy to be featured as a woman working in a technical role @soilplastics for #InternationalWomensDay 👩🏼🔬
With all @GCRF @NERCscience funded #plastic projects coming to an end after 4 years, we come together this week at @Bruneluni to present main findings & discuss implications, policy & what lies ahead.
@PISCESnews @PP_Sci2Soln @SPACES__Project #3SIP2C
And a great overview by @PerrineFlorent about atmospheric deposition of #microplastics, their abundance, identification, and potential of moving through the soil profile in North Wales & our partner countries 🔎🌱
