Researchers from the US, Australia and Italy, in a study published in in the journal Trends in Ecology and Evolution, looked at data on threats to large filter feeders from microplastics. Summary Microplastic pollution can impact filter-feeding marine megafauna, namely … Read More
The 6th Connective Cities Webinar on Solid Waste Management in 2017 concerns the topic Ban on the Use, Production and Sale of Plastic Bags and takes place on Wednesday, 6th December 2017. The webinar will focus on the ban on plastic bags introduced in Kenya as well as … Read More
Professor Maria Cristina Fossi, as one the scientists who took part to the film, was invited at the screening and discussion of the film “A Plastic Ocean” on November 13 2017 at Harvard University, United States of America . Read more
Professor Maria Cristina Fossi will partecipate at the second meeting of the Regional Cooperation Platform which will take place on 9-10 November 2017, in Barcelona, Spain. The meeting will review the progress achieved on the implementation of the Regional Plan on Marine Litter Management in … Read More
Professor Maria Cristina Fossi, coordinator of the Plastic Busters project, will participate as a key-note speaker to the One Ocean Forum, organised by Yacht Club Costa Smeralda (YCCS) and the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO in Milan (Italy) on the … Read More
The Ocean Plastics Lab is an exciting exhibition about science: It showcases the contribution of science to understand and combat the problem of plastics in the ocean. The exhibition is designed as a hands-on science lab, inviting visitors to assume … Read More
Read more
