This webinar covers ICCA’s global effort, known as MARII, to advance microplastics research through systematic, hypothesis-driven studies, and bringing together scientists from industry, academia, and government to share knowledge, research, and innovations on microplastics.

This webinar explores modelling efforts to support environmental risk assessment of microplastics. Prof. Matthew MacLeod and Dr. Antonia Praetorius present innovative frameworks to understand microplastics behavior, transport, and fate in the environment.

This webinar highlights MARII’s work on standardizing methods to assess human exposure to nano- and microplastics and their potential health impacts, featuring two presentations advancing research in the field.

Dr. Raymond Pieters examines how micro- and nanoplastics interact with the immune system, while Dr. Luke Parker discusses the development of reliable test materials for studying these particles.

Dr. Todd Gouin explores whether risk assessment is the best approach for microplastics. Rachel Zajac-Fay discusses threshold development and ongoing work evaluating microplastics toxicity data

Dr Richard Cross and Dr Andy Booth explore the fate and effects of microplastics in soils as well as the role of chemical additives in plastic materials in the degradation process of plastics.