MINAGRIS plenary meeting 2024

The new UN treaty on plastic pollution: A possible solution to the global plastics problem

By the end of this year, we may have international, legally binding rules on how to reduce plastic…

MINAGRIS project now one year old

MINAGRIS is one year old, and what a year it has been! The team have been busy working on a…

MINAGRIS celebrates International Women’s Day

International Women’s Day (08/03) provides a great opportunity for us to celebrate the many women involved in MINAGRIS,…

SoilPlastic App for citizens, students, and farmers: help scientists understand how much plastic ends up in soils

Available on IoS, Android, and in your desktop browser, the recently launched SoilPlastic App allows you to record your sightings of…

Farmers give up using municipal compost due to high plastic content.

Our UK team has recently finished sampling agricultural fields for plastics large and small as part of the…

MINAGRIS case study sampling has begun!

Soil sampling for plastic analysis has now begun across our 11 Europe-wide case study sites. This stage of…

MINAGRIS Featured in Swiss Independent Newspaper ‘WOZ’

“Snow does not often fall on the Ross Ice Shelf in Antarctica. But when it snows, it snows plastics. Together…

Launching the MINAGRIS multi-scale experiment protocol

The MINAGRIS consortia is pleased to present a detailed plan of the experiments that will be undertaken as part of…

Papillons x Minagris Joint Stakeholder Forum

Today we co-hosted the Minagris x Papillons’ joint stakeholder forum on “Plasticulture: An International Perspective on Environmental Sustainability”.…

MINAGRIS at the World Congress of Soil Science

We were very pleased to share an overview of the MINAGRIS project at the recent World Congress of…

Review of microplastic sources, transport pathways and correlations with other soil stressors: a journey from agricultural sites into the environment

A new publication in Agricultural Systems, including several authors from the MINAGRIS team, has found that there is high contamination…

EU project to explore the impacts of plastic debris on soil health and agricultural productivity

The impacts of plastic debris on soil health are largely unknown despite equal, or possibly greater, amounts of…

Plastic use in agriculture

MINAGRIS, over the next 5 years, will explore the impacts of plastic debris on agricultural soil health. This…

Micro-plastics and Human Health: an Explainer.

There is an increasing body of evidence demonstrating that plastics are now ubiquitous across the biosphere, with micro-plastics…

EU Restricts Microplastic Production: Impact on Agriculture

10 years ago, the public conversation on microplastics was focussed almost entirely on microbeads in exfoliant scrubs, toothpastes…