Contact our project leads for more information about these highlighted projects and the other work we do within this node.
Reducing plastics in the Indo-Pacific
We are devising technologies and strategies to intervene in the complex plastics life cycle in the region. This includes addressing policy, economic and behaviour issues.
Project leads: Paul Lant, Bronwyn Laycock
Small island initiative for a plastic-free ocean
We are examining the drivers behind plastic pollution in remote coastal communities in Indonesia to reduce single-use plastic leakage into the marine environment.
Project leads: Anna Phelan, Helen Ross
Solutions to cut plastic waste pollution
We are identifying emerging solutions to avoid, reduce and reuse plastics, and adding to demand-led innovation to reduce, recover and recycle plastics in the corporate sector.
Project leads: Anna Phelan, Helen Ross
Ocean plastics: A wicked problem
We are investigating how approaches taken to other intractable socio-environmental problems can be applied to the challenge of ocean plastic pollution.
Project leads: Helen Ross, Kate O’Brien
Plastics and chemicals in marine life
We are distinguishing the impact of microplastics as a pollutant and carrier of harmful additive chemicals on marine life.
Project lead: Kevin Thomas
Plastics in commercial marine species
We are developing and applying techniques to quantify and characterise the occurrence and uptake of plastics in seafood species with the aim of understanding consumer exposure.
Project lead: Kevin Thomas
