Impacts of MicroPlastics in Irish Fresh Water (IMP)
Microplastics are widespread in seas and oceans, and their harmful effects on many different marine animals are well known. However, we know relatively little about the microplastics in our freshwater rivers, streams and lakes. We still don’t know exactly where they come from, where they […]
Read moreMany happy congratulations to Alicia Mateos Cardenas who successfully defended her PhD thesis entitled “Impacts, Fate and Trophic Transfer of Microplastics in the Freshwater Environment”. This morning’s on-line viva voce was chaired by Prof. Maria Bardosova (Tyndall). Dr Tom Doyle was the internal examiner and […]
Read moreAn UN Report on Microplastics in wastewater is being written and is planned to be launched later this year or early next year. The ongoing study, provisionally titled Assessing available technologies and providing a toolkit of options of technologies to remove plastic, microplastic and microfibres […]
Read moreOn 20 February 2020 the Microbeads (Prohibition) Act 2019 came into effect in Ireland. The Act prohibits the manufacture or the placing on the market of a cosmetic of cleaning product containing microbeads. Microbeads in medicinal products or sunscreen are exempted. While several EU countries […]
Read moreMany plastic fibres may be released in the wastewater when we wash synthetic clothes. These micro-sized fibres are difficult to remove in conventional wastewater treatment plants, and now these fibres are among the most common type of microplastics found in lakes and streams. Prof. Marcel […]
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