Details
- Mission objective
- Objective 1a - Protect and restore marine and coastal ecosystems and biodiversityObjective 2a - Prevent and eliminate pollution - litter and microplastics
- Lighthouse
- Cross-basin
- Sector
- Environmental protection and regeneration
- Topic(s)
- MicroplasticsPlastic pollutionDecontamination
- Type of action
- Evidence-based knowledge and data and/or access provision to knowledge and data
- Type of knowledge output
- Report (research paper, policy report, white paper, guidelines, case studies, best practices, etc)
- Solution owner
- Weather-MIC
- Country
- Germany
Description
The WEATHER-MIC final report assesses how microplastic weathering changes its transport, eventual impact, and toxicity in the marine environment. The report identifies how the fragmentation, surface modification, density, and particle size of microplastics under marine environmental conditions affect the impact of these microplastics on the environment and food webs.
