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Current development and news about microplastics
New article: Why Turkey should not import plastic waste pollution from developed countries?
A new article written by our group leader Dr Sedat Gundogdu and his colleague Dr Tony R. Walker...
New report: Plastic Recycling Schemes Generate High Volumes of Hazardous Waste
Major investments in chemical recycling, plastic-to-fuel, and incineration to manage plastic waste...
Record fines for recycling facilities polluting the environment in Adana
In the investigation conducted in 133 waste recovery facilities in Adana, 26 facilities found to...
Activists Ask Shipping Lines to Stop Exporting Plastic Waste to Developing Countries!
Environmental and social activists around the world have called upon major shipping lines to prove...
Plastic found in commercial fishmeal products at global scale
Plastic (as both micro- and macro- plastic) is an important environmental contaminant, affecting...
BBC: “UK plastic waste dumped by Turkish roadsides in Adana city!”
An investigation by BBC News has found that some plastic waste from Britain sent to Turkey for...
Mediterranean dirty edge: High level of meso and macroplastics pollution on the Turkish coast
First results of our project Microbeach has been published in Environmental Pollution journal. In...
WHO calls for more research into microplastics and a crackdown on plastic Pollution
The World Health Organization (WHO) calls in 22 August 2019 for a further assessment of...
Millions of kilograms of USA’s dirty plastics shipping to Turkey
A report published by The Guardian last day, each month, about 10 ships pull into the ports of...
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