Keynote Presentation 8:45-9:45am Plastic pollution is not new, but the conservation implications of the exponential increase in plastic waste in the ocean are now widely acknowledged. Microplastics - those particles of synthetic plastics smaller than 5 mm - have attracted interest from the scientific community as well as the wider public. It seems as though everywhere we look, we find microplastics - in our oceans, in our air, in our wildlife and in our food and water. Macro-plastics are generally identifiable and therefore actionable in terms of mitigation. Microplastics, on the other hand, consist of myriad sizes, shapes, colors and polymer identifies, effectively holding us back from concrete actions. Emerging data is increasingly helping us to understand the complex source, transport and fate functions of plastics and microplastics into the environment, and this has the potential to galvanize best practices, policies and design changes to stem the release into the environment. The question is: are we too late? Maybe not - but we all need to take some important small steps now to work towards solutions to this problem. ![]() |
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