Plastics in our ocean as transdisciplinary challenge

This conference report summarizes the current challenges of researching microplastics pollution in the ocean as debated by international experts and stakeholders at a workshop held in San Sebastian, Spain, 1-2 October 2019. The transdisciplinary, co-learning approach of this report stressed the need to incorporate multiple perspective in solving the problem of microplastics and resulted in three proposed actions: (i) filtering microplastics from waste waters; (ii) mandatory ecolabels on plastic products packages; and (iii) circular economy of packaging plastics.

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The conference report summarizes the current challenges of researching microplastics pollution in the ocean as debated by international experts and stakeholders, resulting in proposed actions including filtering microplastics, using mandatory ecolabels on plastic products packages, and implementing a circular economy of packaging plastics.