Citizen science to fight marine plastic pollution and improve environmental management

by Universitat de Barcelona

1 year ago
Marine pollution, plastics

The University of Barcelona is working on a citizen science project to better understand the origins and final destination of the plastics that reach the sea and thus improve the marine environment co...

They show that a substance present in many plastics in everyday life is a risk factor for developing prostate cancer

by Instituto de Investigación Biosanitaria - Ibs Granada

5 years ago
Epidemiology, Cancer, prostate cancer, BPA, Bisphenol, plastics

Scientists from the Oncology area of the Biosanitary Research Institute of Granada relate exposure to Bisphenol A with an increased risk of developing prostate cancer

Posidonia marine seagrass can catch and remove plastics from the sea

by Universitat de Barcelona

6 years ago
Posidonia, marine seagrass, plastics, sea, ecosystems

Posidonia oceanica seagrass –an endemic marine phanerogam with an important ecological role in the marine environment- can take and remove plastic materials that have been left at the sea, according...

Our health is increasingly conditioned and at risk from the proliferation of plastics that surround us, especially for food packaging (Press release by Rezero)

by IMIM - Institut Hospital del Mar d'Investigacions Mèdiques

7 years ago
health, plastics, feeding containers, pollution

Dr. Miquel Porta and his team supervised the results of the analyzes performed on 20 relevant people in our society

The value of marine waste

by Universidad del País Vasco

10 years ago
biomaterials, plastics, marine waste

The Biomat research group of the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU) is upgrading the marine waste on the Basque coast (squid, fish and algae waste) to obtain new materials. This line of resear...