Plastic Underground: Integrated Cross-Sectoral Solutions to Micro- and Nanoplastic Pollution in Soil and Groundwater Ecosystems

地下塑料：土壤和地下水生态系统中微塑料和纳米塑料污染的跨部门综合解决方案

• 批准号: EP/X034607/1
• 负责人: Anne Robertson
• 金额: $ 33.8万
• 依托单位: University of Roehampton
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2022 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=EP%2FX034607%2F1
• 关键词: Plastic; Underground; Integrated; Cross; Sectoral

Recent evidence of increasing accumulation of micro- and nanoplastics (MnP) in soils and groundwater raise severe concerns by agricultural and water industries, food manufacturers, regulators, environmental interest groups and citizens. Private and public sectors require detailed understanding of environmental and public health risks posed by MnP in soils and groundwater. The PlasticUnderground Doctoral Network creates supra-disciplinary intersectoral capacity for analysing the fate, transport and impacts of MnP in soils and groundwater to develop solutions for reducing their environmental and public health risks, supporting the EC's circular plastic economy strategy. The central aim of the PlasticUnderground Doctoral Network is to deliver international scientific excellence through a holistic supra-disciplinary and inter-sectoral research and training network on solutions to the emerging crisis of MnP pollution in subsurface ecosystems in soils and groundwater, integrating knowledge across traditional discipline boundaries to benefit the public and private sectors. The supra-disciplinary research programme includes unique training opportunities for a cohort of 10 Early-Stage Researchers (ESRs) (plus one individually funded through ETHZ as Associated Country partner) in environmental and social science, ecotoxicology, soil science and aquatic ecology, analytical chemistry, agronomy, data science and numerical modelling as well as responsible innovation, method standardization for use in regulatory decision making and risk assessment. The integrated training programme will prepare ESRs with skill sets that are urgently required in agricultural, water, chemical, and manufacturing industries, environmental and regulatory agencies, academia, and the public sector and includes training provision by key stakeholders that will directly benefit from the training in this network.

最近的证据表明，土壤和地下水中微米塑料和纳米塑料 (MnP) 的积累不断增加，引起了农业和水工业、食品制造商、监管机构、环境利益团体和公民的严重关注。私营和公共部门需要详细了解二锰对土壤和地下水造成的环境和公共卫生风险。 PlasticUnderground 博士网络创建了超学科的跨部门能力，用于分析 MnP 在土壤和地下水中的归宿、迁移和影响，以开发降低其环境和公共卫生风险的解决方案，支持欧盟的循环塑料经济战略。 PlasticUnderground博士网络的中心目标是通过一个整体的超学科和跨部门研究和培训网络，提供国际科学卓越成果，解决土壤和地下水地下生态系统中新出现的MnP污染危机，整合传统学科的知识边界，使公共和私营部门受益。该超学科研究项目包括为 10 名早期研究人员 (ESR)（加上一名由 ETHZ 作为相关国家合作伙伴单独资助）提供的独特培训机会，涉及环境和社会科学、生态毒理学、土壤科学和水生生态学、分析化学、农学、数据科学和数值建模以及负责任的创新、用于监管决策和风险评估的方法标准化。综合培训计划将为ESR准备农业、水务、化学和制造业、环境和监管机构、学术界和公共部门迫切需要的技能组合，并包括由将直接从培训中受益的主要利益相关者提供的培训在这个网络中。