Check out our new page MESO-Plastic Experiment @Cretacosmos, Greece! We are on the field getting ready for the start. Chiara will take care of updating the page with news and pictures! You can check it out!

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‘Do microplastics on our ocean’s surface have an effect on climate change? ‘ on @lets_experiment http://www.experiment.com/projects/do-microplastics-on-our-ocean-s-surface-have-an-effect-on-climate-change #forscience

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We are at the ASLO2017 meeting presenting results on our laboratory experiments and on the citizen-science and outreach project done by our volunteers! Mahalo for their support and effort!

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On November 14th, 2016, BSc student Carmenzita D’Atri successfully defended her thesis for the BSc Degree in “Prevention techniques in the environment and working places”. Thesis title: “Study on Microplastics in Consumer’s Products in Italy“. This is the first study of this kind in Italy: Carmenzita conducted a survey in popular supermarkets in Siena looking for micro plastics-free and micro plastics-full personal care and consumer’s products. Carmenzita started drafting the first Italian review of products for the international campaign Beat the Microbead. Her BSc thesis was sponsored by EU-project POSEIDOMM. Thanks Carmenzita for the great job and hope to find many more motivated people following your first step!

follow the #CRUSHPLASTIC campaign. Read more on OneGreenPlanet.org and check out these stunning graphics showing how plastic harms marine life!

OTTAWA – The federal government says it will ban the sale of shower gels, toothpaste and facial scrubs containing plastic microbeads, effective July 1, 2018.

A notice published Friday in the Canada Gazette serves as final notice on the long-running environmental complaint, and it sets Canada on a timetable that follows the United States for removing the tiny pollutant from Canadian waters.

Continue reading here (Globalnews Canada)

da Ufficio Stampa Marevivo, 26 Ottobre 2016. Per leggere il comunicato per intero cliccare QUI.

Ok della Camera per la cosmesi sostenibile: più potere ai cittadini che vogliono combattere il “mostro” della plastica

La Camera ha approvato all’unanimità un testo sulla cosmesi sostenibile – nato dalla proposta di legge Realacci e da quella analoga presentata da Abrignani, di cui sono state relatrici Gadda e Mucci – che ha l’obiettivo di calcolare l’impatto dei cosmetici sull’ambiente, stimolare una cosmesi più green e dare ai cittadini una certificazione ecologica trasparente e garantita dalle istituzioni pubbliche. Tale provvedimento ha assorbito anche la proposta di legge per vietare l’uso della microplastica nei cosmetici, frutto della campagna “Mare mostro” di Marevivo.

Thanks to Sustainable Coastline Hawaii for sharing this.