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Welcome to the microplastics (MP) repository. This database was created and is maintained by the research team working at the Department of Chemistry and CESAM, at the University of Aveiro.
Here, you'll find the most recent data generated by an international team within the framework of diverse independently financed projects.
Hopefully, you will get an understanding of the sources, fate and effects of MP in the (aquatic) environment.
MICROPLASTICS
Evidence of fungal spores on the surface of MP
What are the impacts of microplastics? Why are they important?
Why are increasing numbers of citizens and scientists worried about this? Click below to find the answers to these and more pressing questions!
THE IMPACT
OF MICROPLASTICS
DATA GATHERING
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Microplastics are an increasingly worrying environmental issue, with yet undetermined and unforeseen consequences. Gathering as much data as possible is key in understanding what these effects are and how it will be possible, in the future, curtail their impacts.
IMPACTS
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What are the environmental impacts of microplastics? How can these be assessed? What strategies may be used? Learn more below.
WORKS
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Within our group, we are developing efforts to better understand what are the sources, fate(s) and effects of these highly ubiquitous contaminants. Find out more about what we do below.