Innovate UK, Innovate UK KTN, The Satellite Applications Catapult, and the Arribada Initiative have created a series of scoping activities to gather information on how remote sensing is used to understand, monitor, and mitigate plastic litter.
The Microfibre Consortium (TMC) unveiled the next phase of the apparel industry’s campaign to reduce fibre fragmentation from clothing textiles.
Read how funding from the Plastics Research and Innovation Fund (PRIF) helped Lucideon to launch a feasibility study to see whether polymers in microbeads can be replaced by environmentally friendly inorganic alternatives.
Find out about Imogen Campbell-Gray’s participation in eXXpedition – a sailing expedition to the South Pacific Ocean to examine plastic pollution.
Highways England commissioning research into Strategic Road Network’s contribution to microplastics in the environment.
The Microfibre Consortium has launched a microfibre shedding test method which will accelerate research leading to product development change.
This week marks the addition of the UK Microplastics Network to the UKCPN website.
The #ThinkBioplastic platform has launched a second series of videos explaining how bioplastics can play a role in solving our plastic predicament.
EPSRC have released interviews on two PRIF-funded projects which seek to reduce global plastic waste.
