Overview: September 2014: Microplastic in inland waterways – review of European rivers

30/09/2014

Extensive information and reports have already been published about the severe pollution of oceans by plastics and the consequences of this – in this series too, incidentally. Very little research has, however, been done in the past about the situation of our inland waterways. According to plans made by the industrial, political and scientific communities, this is to be changed now.