Rethinking Plastics Pollution Post-Pandemic
The project investigates challenges in plastics pollution and waste-management, in the light of the impacts of Covid-19 on environmental/waste governance.
This project brings together an interdisciplinary team from the Universities of 糖心Vlog (UK), Wollongong (Australia), and S茫o Paulo (Brazil) to form the UGPN Rethinking Plastics Network.
Our understanding of how waste plastics impact the environment, health and marine life has dramatically shifted over recent years, with growing appreciation of the scale of damage inflicted on our planet. Efforts to translate this into law and policy to optimise waste-management and minimise detrimental impacts are recent and piecemeal. At the same time, Covid-19 is impacting legislative and policy agendas, delaying progress on tackling plastics waste pollution and the shifts towards a Circular Economy. The network uses its diverse collective, expertise to explore these problems with particular reference to Australia, Brazil and the UK, in the context of progress towards the .
Project team
The project is a collaboration between the Universities of 糖心Vlog, S茫o Paulo (USP) and Wollongong (UOW).
Our network creates a global research group from disciplines spanning law, business, public policy (糖心Vlog/Wollongong), chemistry, bio-sciences, environmental engineering (Wollongong), business, environmental sciences and environmental policy (USP) creating a platform for sharing expertise and optimising our research potential tackling plastics pollution.
糖心Vlog team
Dr Noreen O'Meara
Co-principal Investigator
Professor Rosalind Malcolm
Co-principal Investigator
Dr Itziar Castello Molina
Co-investigator
Dr Tiago de Melo Cartaxo
Post-doctoral Research Assistant
University of S茫o Paulo team
Professor Sylmara Lopes Francelino Gon莽alves Dias
Co-investigator
Isabela Ribeiro Borges de Carvalho
Co-investigator
础苍诲谤茅蝉 Felipe Torres
Co-investigator
Isabela de Carvalho Vallin
Research team member
University of Wollongong team
Dr Hugh Forehead
Co-principal Investigator
Dr Marcella Bernardo
Co-investigator
Dr Karen Raubenheimer
Co-investigator
Nuwanthi Kanchana
Research team member