What’s the deal with the Plastic Soup again?
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Amsterdam, 1 August 2018 – The hot weather draws many people to the beach and useful work is to be done there. Because what looks like clean sand, could in fact, be contaminated with microplastics. In collaboration with the University of Portsmouth, researcher David Jones, founder of Just One Ocean, has devised a way to map this pollution globally. Everyone can participate: individuals and organisations. The Big Micro Plastic Survey study is not limited to beaches; banks of rivers and lakes can also be explored.
The citizen science project consists of six simple steps:
Maria Westerbos, director of the Plastic Soup Foundation: “We are proud to be a partner in this citizen science project. It is fantastic that in a fairly simple way everyone can contribute to research that is extremely important for scientific knowledge about the distribution and concentration of microplastics. We call on everyone to join in.”
Also read: Support the Plastic Soup Foundation with MBRC the Ocean
March 15 2024 That’s what readers of news site nu.nl on their comment platform Nujij were wondering. In a recent […]
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The waste-export to countries outside of the EU has been restricted The Netherlands is against a carpet ban on shipping of plastic waste.
The waste-export to countries outside of the EU has been restricted The Netherlands is against a carpet ban on shipping of plastic waste.