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  • Det er en rekke kilder til mikroplast i havet (Foto: Amy Lusher/NIVA)

    Flere havbaserte kilder til mikroplast enn fiskeutstyr

    Det er ikke bare gammelt fiskeutstyr som fører til mikroplastutslipp langs kysten. Maling, oljeutvinning og fiskeoppdrett er andre viktige kilder, viser ny forskning fra NIVA og Akvaplan-niva. Syv år etter den første norske kartleggingen av havbaserte kilder til mikroplast konkluderer forskerne med at det fortsatt stor mangel på kunnskap om disse utslippene.
    - Det er viktig å identifisere kild

  • The Wave Glider of Akvaplan-niva that will be fitted with optical sensor for tracking macro plastic in the Barents Sea

    ​The hunt for plastic in the Arctic

    We are very happy to announce that Akvaplan-niva has been awarded a 2 year project by the the Norwegian Retailers Environment Fund. The project called "Detecting, Identifying and Mapping plastic in the Arctic using robotics and digital solutions (DIMARC)" will use autonomous unmanned robotics and machine learning to detect, identify and map plastic litter in the Norwegian Arctic.

  • Examples for knowledge gaps of the distribution, transport, and impact of plastic litter in Arctic systems (Illustration: Chris Emblow, Akvaplan-niva)..

    Knowledge gaps on trends in Arctic plastic pollution

    Claudia Halsband (Akvaplan-niva) and Dorte Herzke (Norwegian Institute for Air Research NILU) has recently published an article in the journal Emerging Contaminants. They find that despite an exponential increase in available data on marine plastic debris globally, information on levels and trends of plastic pollution and especially microplastics in the Arctic remains scarce.