Host institution:
University of Bonn, Germany
Postgraduate:
Olivia Wrigley
Supervisors:
Dr. Melanie Braun
Prof. Dr. Peter Fiener
ESR04
Elucidating the role of compost application, plastic mulching and irrigation for plastic pollution of soils
Objectives:
The overarching goal of this project is to optimize isolation, enumeration and characterisation of MiP in agricultural soils and to use this method to determine the plastic pollution of soils under plastic foil, irrigation and compost management.
This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No 955334.