🚨Another paper published under funding from NERC The Plastic Vectors Project 🚨 ‘Selective microbial attachment to LDPE plastic beads during passage through the wastewater’. A great feeling to see your study you designed with your colleagues be published!#wastewater sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

The maize is looking gooooood 😍 After a bit of a cold spell, the little plants have recovered so well!

Our GCRF Agriplastics Project Meeting was just held in Imperial College, London. I gave a presentation about microplastics in the atmosphere. Very happy to see the most of project partners and you can learn more about the project in gcrf-agriplastics.uk

Welcoming all our #GCRF Agriplastic Project partners to our global meeting last week in London was an absolute pleasure ❤ Days full of great discussions, presentations & opportunities to connect 🇬🇧🇮🇳🇨🇳🇱🇰🇻🇳🇪🇬 Ready & set for the final leg of the project 💪🏻

Following our global project meeting last week, we also had the pleasure to host some of our Sri Lankan & Chinese partners back at Bangor University - with more partners from India & Sri Lanka expected in the next few months for more research exchange 🤓🥰 🇱🇰🇮🇳🇨🇳

Our Plastic Legacy in Soil global project meeting was a great opportunity to discuss preliminary inter-laboratory comparison data for #microplastic extractions from different media. All part of our global soil survey to assess MP pollution levels on farms actively using mulch films🤓

Big difference in plant development between control plots, biodegradable, and LDPE mulch film application after 2 months in the 4th year of this field experiment 🌱

Check out our new paper on how LDPE, PLA/PBAT, and no #plastic mulch film application affect nitrogen partitioning, plant development, and soil properties in a field setting 🔎🌱 #OpenAccess sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

📣Check out our newest paper, led by Martine Graf , on how the application of LDPE, PLA/PBAT, and no #plastic mulch film affect N partitioning, plant development, & soil properties in a maize field experiment ⬇️⬇️⬇️ sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

📢 Check out our newest paper led by Michaela Reay & Martine Graf on how nutrient availability limits microbial PHBV #microplastic degradation at high concentrations in soil in a mesocosm experiment #OpenAccess ⬇️⬇️⬇️ pubs.rsc.org/en/Content/Art…

📣 New paper led by Michaela Reay on low molecular additives & metals in >50 #LDPE & biodegradable #plastic mulch films and their leachates, and the potential environmental burden this could place on agricultural farmland in China. ⬇️#OpenAccess here ⬇️ sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

🥳 New paper out today! Read all about the assessment of 4 artificial #degradation methods for #LDPE & #biodegradable #plastic mulch films according to rate, efficiency, and similarity to field ageing 🤓 #OpenAccess Plastic Legacy in Soil ⬇️⬇️⬇️ doi.org/10.1007/s10924…

🎉 New paper out today, led by Martine Graf, on the assessment of 4 artificial degradation methods for #LDPE & biodegradable #plastic mulch films according to efficiency, rate, and similarity to field aged plastic Check it out #OpenAccess below ⬇️⬇️⬇️ doi.org/10.1007/s10924…

Super excited to attend #ICONIM2025 today in Sri Lanka 🇱🇰 Hosted & organised by our Sri Lankan project partners, we're looking forward to a day full of great presentations, discussions, and policy exchange.

Presenting some of our research on biodegradability of #plastic mulch films & their effect on microbial communities in soil #ICOMIN2025

With all Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF) Natural Environment Research Council funded #plastic projects coming to an end after 4 years, we come together this week at Brunel University of London to present main findings & discuss implications, policy & what lies ahead. PISCES Pacific Plastics: Science to Solutions The SPACES Project #3SIP2C

Happy to be featured as a woman working in a technical role Plastic Legacy in Soil for #InternationalWomensDay 👩🏼‍🔬 techniciancommitment.org.uk/celebrating-in…

Our article with video about extracting microplastics in soils and polymer type identification is now online in JoVE.app.jove.com/t/67064/separa…

📣 New method paper out on the extraction, quantification, and identification of #microplastic from soil - with video guide! 👩🏼‍🔬 Led by our amazing PhD student Siyang Ren. Check it out here ⬇️⬇️⬇️ app.jove.com/t/67064/separa…