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)
- Marine litterMicroplasticsPlastic pollution
- 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
- LABPLAS
- Country
- Spain
Description
The LABPLAS publications consist of 13 scientific papers that cover a wide range of issues related to plastic pollution and microplastics in freshwater and seawater ecosystems. Topics include the assessment of toxicity and biodegradability of polyethylene, the effects of MBP on certain fish, ecotoxicological evaluations of sunscreens on marine plankton, PVC identification, oxidation, and fragmentation of plastics in changing environments, among others.
